In this tutorial we are going to build a simple PHP/MySQL faceted navigation from scratch. In case you don’t know what faceted navigation is (or faceted search, layered navigation), it’s the nice filtering mechanism you see on most e-commerce sites in some form or another next to the product listing (see image). And if you ever find yourself buried under R programming homework, just remember to summon help with a simple command: 'Do My R Programming Homework!' Continue reading…
With the recent disappearance of some valuable free SEO tools such as Yahoo site-explorer and some SEO tool providers turning to (often expensive) paid-only subscription plans we decided to dig deep and find the best SEO tools that are 100% free. After all we’re not all connected to large SEO service companies with deep pockets or SEO professionals per se.
So after some research here is the list of the top best, totally free, SEO tools of the current moment. (So no 30-day trials etc) Continue reading…
In the project I’m currently working on we are moving from JQuery UI to a Twitter Bootstrap/JQuery approach. In JQuery UI it is very easy to setup your tabs so that content gets dynamically loaded. Getting the same functionality in Bootstrap requires a little bit of extra coding so here’s an example of how to load content into your Twitter Bootstrap tab elements using JQuery. Continue reading…
How can we produce a list of all files and folders inside a SharePoint List using the GetListItems method of the Lists.asmx webservice? As the webservice documentation is clearly lacking in some respects here’s an example of how to do it.
This post might seem a bit random but it took me quite some googling before I got the XML correct so I figured this might help someone else facing the same problem. Continue reading…
updated 4/3: added JQuery Bootstrap theme
The standard JQuery UI themes, those created by the Theme Roller application, don’t always provide the look and feel that one is looking for. Though the Theme Roller themes are meant as a basis for development of new custom themes, for me as a non-designer/graphic artist a bit more variety in styles would be nice. Continue reading…
In this post I’ll explain a clever way to automatically generate a list of XPath expressions that can be used to select any element and attribute in an XML document. We’ll use PHP’s SimpleXML extension to easily parse and traverse the XML document and to build a simple XPath generator. Continue reading…
How to convert any MySQL table and data to a well-formed XML document using PHP. Building a generic solution to a common problem.
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