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MO Auto add terms for Drupal

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:03:32 +0000

MO Auto add terms is a PHP module for Drupal 6.x.

It is particularly useful for maintaining small and large taxonomies with a small or large number of nodes. Especially taxonomies used as site indexes or glossaries.

This module automatically handles the addition (and optionally removal) of taxonomy terms to a node. It does it at the time the node is saved and when the background process runs (i.e. CRON.)

CSS3 media queries

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:26:21 +0000

CSS is improving with the introduction of CSS3.

Contrary to the previous version, CSS3 supports selections that are very advanced, offering capabilities close to what you could write in JavaScript.

Today I wanted to talk about the Media Queries because that can be used to very much optimize the list of links used to load your CSS data.

In HTML, you can use a <link ...> to add a CSS file to your page.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

In this case, the file style.css will always be loaded, whatever the media being used.

Upgrade to PHP 5.3.3 or older because of security issue

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:26:19 +0000

If you are responsible for a Debian or Ubuntu server and run PHP on it, make sure to run the following command to fix several security issues found in PHP:

sudo apt-get install php5-suhosin

This will make the necessary and your PHP version (security wise) will look like you have PHP 5.3.3.

What I found quite annoying in regard to this issue is the fact that it was very difficult to find a mention of this upgrade. All I could find in large number were people saying that you'd have to get an upgrade using the source code of PHP. Somehow, I did not feel like upgrading PHP from source!

MO Label Inside for Drupal

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:22:50 +0000

$14.90

More and more, modern websites move the label attached to a text field input directly inside the text field. Especially, you see this feature when you are asked to enter an email address or a query string in a search box.

The MO Label Inside module offers this functionality for all of your Drupal text field input elements.

$14.90

Remote Blogging

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:10:12 +0000

Introduction

Snap! Blog Lite and Snap! Blog Pro support remote blogging.

Remote blogging is composed of two parts:

A blog that lets your editor connect to send new posts
A blogging client (i.e. an editor) running on your computer

Snap! Blogger is such a blog and it works with different editors as listed below.

Available Editors

ScribeFire is a FireFox plug-in. It works under MS-Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux.

BlogJet is a standalone editor for MS-Windows.

BlogDesk is a standalone editor that runs under MS-Windows.

Ecto is a standalone editor that runs under Mac ...

CKeditor

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:01:13 +0000

Introduction

Snap! uses the CKeditor as its WYSIWYG editor. It allows you to create posts that are formatted as in your Word processor.

This page helps you understand and makes full use of the widgets available in your editor.

Table of Contents Settings

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:24:31 +0000

Filter Configuration

At this point, most of the Table of Contents configuration is done in the Table of Contents filter.

This means multiple Input formats allow you to make use of several different configurations.

MO Regex Filter for Drupal

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:49:09 +0000

$5.00

One of our customers changed to a new domain name. This left his site with thousands of links pointing to his old domain name. Changing all of those links manually would have proven to be too time consuming. That's when Made to Order Software decided to create the MO Regex Filter Drupal module to answer his need. This module was then used to replace the old domain name with the new domain name automatically. Many days if not weeks of work was saved!

$5.00

Import

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:13:39 +0000

Tag Info

Tag Number:

Tag Type:

Define

Tag Flash Version:

Tag Structure:

struct swf_import {
	swf_tag			f_tag;		/* 57 or 71  */
	string			f_url;
	if(version >= 8) {
		unsigned char		f_version;	/* must be set to 1 */
		unsigned char		f_reserved;
	}
	unsigned short		f_count;
	swf_external		f_symbol[f_count];
};

WARNING: in a Version 8 movie you MUST use an Import2 tag instead of Import or it just will not work (Import tags are ignored in version 8 movies).

Appendix A — The geometry in SWF — Matrix

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:52:53 +0000

The coordinates are often transformed with the use of a matrix. The matrix is similar to a transformation matrix in Postscript. It includes a set of scaling factors, rotation angles and translations.

When only the scaling factors are used (no rotation) then these are ratios as one would expect. If a rotation is also applied, then the scaling ratios will be affected accordingly.