This is the result!

You can get the script here

http://www.dom111.co.uk/files/minifycss/

If it’s useful, I might set up a memorable URL, let me know in the comments

I did set up syntax highlighting, using codemirror, which looked pretty nice, but made the minification (on large-ish files) take far too long. I haven’t really tested on any huge files, so try this at your own risk, but it seems faster that TextMate was.

Are you concerned your users will too?

Never fear! This simple plugin places an element of the same type underneath the current element and shows the contents of the title attribute (or whatever attribute you decide to use) as a label until you type text into the box!

It’s a very early version, and probably has a few bugs, but I’ve implemented enough to make it fairly useful I think. Unfortunately when you resize a textarea in webkit, it doesn’r fire the resize event, so I’ve added a workaround using mousemove (I tried to only capture mousemove if a mousedown had been detected, but to no avail…)

You can see a demo here, and get the files here.

This small file contains 4 functions (2 of which are taken from the PHP manual, credit given!) which will allow you to encode and decode entities from ASCII/unicode strings in either decimal or hexadecimal format for use in valid XML documents.

The xml_entity_decode() function accepts an optional second parameter to allow non-standard XML entities (that may have been specified in your schema) in the format:

array(
  // 'entity' => 'char'
  'amp' => '&',
  'lt' => '<',
  'gt' => '>',
  'apos' => '\'',
  'quot' => '"'
)

Example usage:

include('funcs.xmlentities.php');
 
$s = '<strong>This</strong> should be safe, but don\'t assume!<br/>';
print '<Field>'.xmlentities($s).'</Field>';
// outputs: <Field>&lt;strong&gt;This&lt;/strong&gt; should be safe, but don&apos;t assume!&lt;br/&gt;</Field>

You can get the script here, or there’s a demo here too.

Simple, I thought, just use one of the many existing drop-down plugins. I tried many, but most seemed to use hardcoded styles and I had a few problems (some of which I encountered again, writing this).

So I’ve made this, I think it’s fairly robust, but I’m sure there’ll be problems with embedded objects (flash) and select boxes (in <= IE6), but for my needs, it sufficed, so I thought I'd share, in case anyone else needs a simple script to manage drop-downs.

To use, create a nest of elements like this:

<ul id="top">
  <li>
    <ul>
      <li></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

or something similar (any elements, should work) and call:

// jQuery:
$('ul#top').dropdownify();
 
// mootools
$('top').dropdownify();

Which should create a simple drop-down.

There are a couple of examples, one for jQuery and one for mootools, and the files can downloaded here and here.

I did encounter a problem with IE, mainly due to z-index faults, so with HTML code like the following:

<div class="nav-wrapper">
  <ul id="top">
    <li>
      <ul>
        <li></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

I used the following CSS:

div.nav-wrapper,
div.nav-wrapper ul,
div.nav-wrapper ul li {
  position: static;
  z-index: 100;
}

I’m sure there’s many way in which is can be simplified, so if you know any I’d like the contributions!

It’s run like this:

$ ./csv-chunk.sh large-data.csv 5000

The first argument being the filename and the second argument the maximum number of lines for each ‘chunk’. From that 45Mb megalith, 38 files of around 1.2Mb were produced which didn’t seem to break the other end!

Here’s the script:

#!/bin/bash
 
function help {
  echo "Usage:"
  echo "  $0 <csv filename> <number of lines>=5000"
  exit 1
}
 
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
  help
fi
 
if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
  chunk=5000
else
  chunk=$2
fi
 
file=$1
 
if [ ! -e $file ]; then
  echo "File $file not found!"
  exit 5
fi
 
header=`head -n 1 $file`
max=`cat $file | wc -l`
x=1
 
echo "Breaking down $file ($max lines into $chunk lined files)"
 
for (( i=1; i<=$max; i+=$chunk )); do
  chunkfile="chunk-$x-$file"
 
  if [ -e $chunkfile ]; then
    echo "$chunkfile already exists!"
    exit 2
  fi
 
  `touch $chunkfile`
  echo $header > $chunkfile
 
  start=`expr $i + 1`
  end=`expr $i + $chunk`
 
  `sed $start,$end\!d $file >> $chunkfile`
 
  x=`expr $x + 1`
done
 
echo "Created $x files"
exit 0

Recently I’ve seen a few implementation of Growl in Javascript and basically just thought I’d have a go too. Everyone’s doing it, or so it seems!

This simple implementation is styled using pure CSS and you should be to easily modify it to suit your needs!

I’ve set up a demo page and the files can be grabbed from here.

But after working on the chunk script I decided that next time I build a CSV class I’d do it properly.

This is the result:

  <?php
  require('class.csv.php');
 
  header('Content-type: text/plain');
 
  $csv = new CSV('test.csv');
 
  while ($row = $csv->read()) {
    print_r($row);
  }

There’s an information page here, and the script is here.

Theres an updated test page and as ever a direct link to download here.

Check out the test page to see the new features!

Edit: Further updates, all links have been updated to version 0.3b. Added (and documented existing) callbacks as requested by Sebioff! And a further fix for the ‘append’ option. Also fixed IE6 compatibility.

Further Update: Another update after the comment from David Lee about $(‘form’).serialize();

Another Further Update: I have set up a Google Code repository for this plugin, which states that this code is released under the MIT license.

I’ve moved my DNS over to 123-reg and have had a few issues getting all the DNS records to work as expected…

Hopefully I’ve fixed it now…