Grab a remote web document using sockets, with limited handling for 301 & 302 redirects.

This code allows you to set the "opcity" style attribute on a element without affecting it's content.

Just call the function for a specific element or to all elements of a given classname after the document loads.

Examples and advanced usage here...

These are some prototype methods to handle class names in html elements. As you all should know, a html element can have more than one class name.

This is part of my dom handling toolkit. Check it out and use it at will.

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This is a simple fade in / fade out javascript slideshow, search engine friendly with low resource usage.

More info here.

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A simple, yet powerful (what a cliché) way of resgistering javascript keyboard shortcuts. Register any kind of keyboard shortcuts, and if applicable, override the browser default action.

Example usage and more info here:

Javascript Keyboard Shortcut Manager

Enhance External Links

Fade an Element

I use this in my AJAX as a quick way to get the Value of the selected item in a Select HTML object. If nothing is selected, it returns zero.
(May be basic to y'all, but maybe really usefull to someone else).

"Today in the news, MySQL previews..."

As a "preview" of text, this MySQL select will return the first few words out of a text field in a database. It returns entire words (doesn't cut them off in the middle) and follows the last word with an elipse "..."

In the PHP, assign $CharactersToDisplay to a number - the approximate number of characters desired (or you can hard-code it if you want).

For the example, I also use $TheID as the row identity for the record to display.

MySQL 5.x Stored Routines, PHP Session Values, a little CSS oh my! Complex to set up but easy to impliment. Geared toward security, simplicity (of use) and convenience.