Archive for November, 2007

PHP Date Format Cheat Sheet

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Please consult the original documentation for examples and more information.
Usage Example:
$format = “‘l M j, y \a\t g:iA’”;
date($format, strtotime($date_str)

Result: “Thursday Nov 29, 07 at 2:09PM”

Format Character
Description
Example returned values

Hour

H
24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
00 through 23

G
24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
0 through 23

h
12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
01 through 12

g
12-hour [...]

Customize Pligg with Your Own Design

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Last week, I spent some time customizing a Pligg installation. After reading many pages of code to familiarize myself with the process, I decided to share my findings in hopes that it will be helpful to some others who also need to customize the look of a Pligg site. This was my first time installing [...]

CSS … be careful when using wildcard *

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

I was working on a project today and found that the content in a table I created all squeezed together, even though that I had set “cellspacing=10″.
After some investigation I found that in the CSS code, padding and margin of all elements was removed:
body * {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
I could, in theory, [...]