Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, General, Javascript, PHPSep 14th, 2005 | No Comments
Mint is a new product recently released to track the statistics on your website. It has gotten much attention from several areas, and I thought it would be worth it to check it out.
I am currently using StatCounter.com to track the traffic to my site. It is really useful when you use their paid service which keeps track of more than the last 100 visits to your site (the free version cap). It lets you view all the regular stats as well as “drill down” to see the actual path a single visitor took through your site. But, it is a monthly subscription service, which means potenially...
Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, CSS, GeneralSep 13th, 2005 | 2 Comments
After hearing about the new CSS based workflow of Dreamweaver 8, which came out yesterday evening, I had high hopes that the rendering engine for CSS and HTML would have been improved. Disappointingly, this wasn’t the case. Why don’t they try using the rendering engines for Firefox, Safari, and even IE. The first two are now completely open for use and the latter would be smart to include even if there is a liscencing fee.
mediaRAIN, my employer, uses Macromedia Studio because we specialize in Flash products. However, we do many HTML/PHP projects as well. Dreamweaver has always...
Posted by Jacob Wright in General, PHPSep 9th, 2005 | 5 Comments
This is a little trick to create a logout from your site if you are using HTTP Authentication. I am using it for a current project I'm working on where cookie based sessions won't reliably work. We (Derek Andriesian and I) are using HTTP Authenticaton to log into an account which is only accessed through javascript and image urls from other sites. Some browsers disallow cookies being set by sites other than the current one, so keepig the user logged in is not always possible using cookie-base session management.
To use HTTP Authentication you just do this in your PHP:
// retrieve the vars...
Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, GeneralAug 24th, 2005 | No Comments
Google has just released Google Talk, an instant messaging and voice over IP client. It can be downloaded for free.
The download was incredibley small, especially when compared with MSN Messenger and similar services. Google Talk doesn't have any adds or stupid features you never use. It's small, light-weight, and fast.
One thing I would have liked is a feature where you could communicate with contacts that are using other services such as AIM, Yahoo IM, and MSN Messenger. But hopefully all my friends and family will use it soon so that I can get in touch with them through Google Talk instead.
Overall,...
Posted by Jacob Wright in Flash, General, PHPAug 12th, 2005 | No Comments
AMFPHP (Flash Remoting written in PHP) has hit a stable version 1.0 release! I've been looking forward to this for a long time.
Flash Remoting is a method of transfering data to a Macromedia Flash Movie. It sends it in binary format and is much easier to use as it arrives in an object form, meaning, you don't have to sort through the child nodes of an XML object. I have been using AMFPHP for over a year on several projects (being one of the main backend developers in my company, mediaRAIN) to send stuff. I created the logo storage of LogoMaker/InstaLogo using AMFPHP which handles, and I quote,...
Posted by Jacob Wright in General, JavascriptAug 11th, 2005 | No Comments
I have created a method that assists in creating your HTML elements in Javascript. textToNode takes a string of text and converts it into a DOM element which you may then use for insertion. It's much easier to use than creating each node seperately, adding attributes to it, then appending it to the parent. It also works for table elements (tr, td, etc.) and the option element in a drop-down box.
This was created for DOMClass objects but has been very nice for creating elements on the fly. It is as easy to use as the innerHTML property of an element, but it works with table elements etc. and...
