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How To Remove the White Space in wp_list_pages

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The Problem The wp_list_pages() generates either a series of elements containing links to all of you blog’s pages, or a full unordered list with a heading at the beginning. The output of this list looks like this: <ul> <li><a href="#">Page name</a></li> <li><a href="#">Page name</a></li> </ul> While some browsers don’t have a problem with elements being generated on new lines, in some, this method causes a white space to show up in front of each list item. This space becomes visible and annoying when trying to create a horizontal menu with background colors and equal horizontal spacing. The Fix To get rid of the white space, your output would need to look like this: <ul><li><a href="#">Page name</a></li><li><a href="#">Page name</a></li></ul> This can be achieved by using a small PHP function that will take the code generated b

Check validate HTML and CSS

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_uri http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://thy4u.blogspot.com

Array Max

<html> <head> <title>Array Max</title> <script type="text/javascript"> // From: http://codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=152260 var v=[10,8,42,50] // So looking to find 50 function srchMaxV() { var maxV = 0; // or value smaller that smallest in array to search, like = -1000; for (i=0; i if (v[i] > maxV) { maxV = v[i]; } } return maxV; } function NumSort(a,b) { return a-b; } // required for sorting numbers only function sortMaxV() { var sortedV = new Array(); sortedV = v.sort(NumSort); alert('Max: '+sortedV[sortedV.length-1]+'\nMin: '+sortedV[0]); } </script> </head> <body> <button onclick="alert('Max: '+srchMaxV())">Search for Max <button onclick="sortMaxV()">Sort for Max/Min </body> </html>

Image watermark with PHP

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Steps: 1. Load both images 2. Get size of both images 3. Copy watermark to main image 4. Print image to screen PHP functions: imagecreatefromgif imagecreatefromjpeg getimagesize imagecopymerge header imagejpeg imagedestroy Watermark image: Main image: <?php $main_img = "Happy_valentines_day.jpg"; // main big photo / picture $watermark_img = "watermark.gif"; // use GIF or PNG, JPEG has no tranparency support $padding = 3; // distance to border in pixels for watermark image $opacity = 100; // image opacity for transparent watermark $watermark = imagecreatefromgif($watermark_img); // create watermark $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($main_img); // create main graphic if(!$image || !$watermark) die("Error: main image or watermark could not be loaded!"); $watermark_size = getimagesize($watermark_img); $watermark_width = $watermark_size[0]; $watermark_height = $watermark_size[1]; $image_size = getimagesize($main_img); $dest_x = $imag

Check password safety with JavaScript while typing

<script language="javascript"> function check_password_safety(pwd){ var msg = ""; var points = pwd.length; var password_info = document.getElementById('password_info'); var has_letter = new RegExp("[a-z]"); var has_caps = new RegExp("[A-Z]"); var has_numbers = new RegExp("[0-9]"); var has_symbols = new RegExp("\\W"); if(has_letter.test(pwd)) { points += 4; } if(has_caps.test(pwd)) { points += 4; } if(has_numbers.test(pwd)) { points += 4; } if(has_symbols.test(pwd)) { points += 4; } if( points >= 24 ) { msg = ' Your password is strong! '; } else if( points >= 16 ) { msg = ' Your password is medium! '; } else if( points >= 12 ) { msg = ' Your password is weak! '; } else { msg = ' Your password is very weak! '; } password_info.innerHTML = msg ; } </script> <input type="text" name="pwd" id="pwd" size="20" onkeyup=&q

How to Send Email from a PHP Script Using SMTP Authentication

require_once "Mail.php"; $from = "Sandra Sender "; $to = "Ramona Recipient "; $subject = "Hi!"; $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?"; $host = "mail.example.com"; $username = "smtp_username"; $password = "smtp_password"; $headers = array ('From' => $from, 'To' => $to, 'Subject' => $subject); $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host, 'auth' => true, 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password)); $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body); if (PEAR::isError($mail)) { echo(" " . $mail->getMessage() . " "); } else { echo(" Message successfully sent! "); } ?>