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Whilst it’s fairly simple to convert meters to feet and inches using PHP the resulting conversion often looks rather complex and untidy. For example, most conversions will end up looking something like this: 12 meters = 39.3700 feet. This is not very pretty and looks overly complicated when …
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This is a handy PHP function (I can’t remember where I found it) which performs a recursive deletion of every file in a given directory. I’ve been using it to periodically flush cache files created by my CMS on this site. function destroy($dir) { $mydir = opendir($dir); while(false …
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Previous and next “pagination” is a fairly common design element found on sites. As the name suggests, it’s a simple navigation structure designed to allow users to move forward to the next, or return to the previous page in a sequence of documents. The purpose of this type …
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Many people argue against removing browser default styles for form elements, especial replacing the default submit input with an image. This for the simple fact that text in an image cannot be resized by the user. However, forms are a continual interest for me, and where possible I …
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I have seen similar styling of blog post dates on many blogs, and always thought it was a rather neat way of doing it. Tonight I decided to have a go for myself and discovered that it’s pretty darn simple really. All it takes is an image, a …
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