Chris Holden .com News Feed http://www.chris-holden.com/ This is the news feed for Chris Holden .com keeping you up-to-date with all the latest additions and updates to my site. en-gb Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:16:54 -0500 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:16:54 -0500 chris-holden.com RSS Generator manager@chris-holden.com webmaster@chris-holden.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CSS Hack for IE7 http://www.chris-holden.com/undefined/cat/2/id/10 As you may know, with the new Internet Explorer 7, the old "star html" hack used to provide styles only to IE fails. This is causing many websites hacks to break and look crap in IE7. If you are looking for a CSS hack to single out IE7 then this is a simple solution.body { background: #fff; } /* all browsers */html > body { background: #00f; } /* standards browsers and IE7 */* html body… Undefined chris@chris-holden.com Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:32:04 -0500 http://www.chris-holden.com/undefined/cat/2/id/10 DOM Marquee http://www.chris-holden.com/code/cat/4/id/7 The <marquee> tag is not part of the HTML specification, it was invented by Microsoft and gradually over time support for displaying it has been built in to newer browsers. But if you want to scroll content on your webpage and use the marquee tag, the page wont validate. The solution is to use javascript. For browsers that dont support javascript or the DOM the page will remain static.  UsageFirst you need to put this in the <head> of the… Code chris@chris-holden.com Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:25:20 -0400 http://www.chris-holden.com/code/cat/4/id/7 Graphical Checkboxes http://www.chris-holden.com/code/cat/4/id/6 HTML forms arent the easiest to style, you inevitably have to put up with the bog standard looking radio, checkbox and selects. This script lets you replace the ugly checkboxes on a webpage with your own fancy graphics!RequirementsWell first of all you will need to download the script (at the bottom of the page). After that you need to create your two images for the checkbox. You need two images so there is a difference between checked and unchecked boxes… Code chris@chris-holden.com Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:28:38 -0400 http://www.chris-holden.com/code/cat/4/id/6 Random String Generator http://www.chris-holden.com/code/cat/3/id/5 Have you ever needed to generate a random password or a random string for authentication purposes? You can use this function to create such a string. For a given length, it will return a string containing only characters in the character set specified in $chars. function rand_string ($length = 6){ $chars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; $max = strlen($chars) - 1; $str = ""; for ($i = 0; $i <= $length; $i++) {… Code chris@chris-holden.com Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:35:15 -0400 http://www.chris-holden.com/code/cat/3/id/5 Simple PHP Captcha Image http://www.chris-holden.com/undefined/cat/2/id/9 What you need Well before you can start creating images in PHP you need the GD Image Library with the FreeType library 1.x or greater. That means you have all the necessary functions to add text using a .ttf font to a png image. Right now, we're set up, lets continue... Lets Begin To start with, all of the following code is going to be saved in one file, for the… Undefined chris@chris-holden.com Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:13:37 -0400 http://www.chris-holden.com/undefined/cat/2/id/9 Chris Holden .com v2 http://www.chris-holden.com/undefined/cat/1/id/8 Well it has been a while since I did any work on my website, including updates. I had a little time on my hands, so I decided that not only would I update it, I'd completely overhaul the back end and give the place a face lift. You can see the results for yourself. I'm no graphic designer, but I am happy with my new look! Most of the new stuff you wont… Undefined chris@chris-holden.com Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:58:03 -0400 http://www.chris-holden.com/undefined/cat/1/id/8 New Things!! http://www.chris-holden.com/news/id/3 It's been a loooooong time coming, but I've finally updated my site! Not the content - though I will be putting up some of that too - it's the back end that has had a facelift. The first version of my CMS wasn't all that great. This second version is much better, in my opinion anyway! I developed a templating system, created a more robust database class and almost completely seperated my code and display. I've done… News chris@chris-holden.com Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:41:36 -0400 http://www.chris-holden.com/news/id/3 MediaFed News Reader http://www.chris-holden.com/work/id/1 Brief This project, for St Saviours, was to create an online news aggregator. The company required that visitors could create their own user account and manage their own list of feeds. Users needed to be able to create a "favourite feeds" list which was displayed to them when they logged in to their account. From the favourites list they could read updated items, mark items & feeds as read, update a feed and add/remove feeds from the… Work chris@chris-holden.com Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:50:50 -0400 http://www.chris-holden.com/work/id/1 Full Steam Ahead http://www.chris-holden.com/news/id/2 Well as you may have noticed by now, content is starting to trickle into the site. The back end is pretty much finished, I wont be adding or changing anything for the forseeable future - not unless I find a gaping security hole that needs plugging.If you are interested in reading about how I made this site then you can always look at the Projects Section. In fact this probably the last news update in a while… News chris@chris-holden.com Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:38:59 -0500 http://www.chris-holden.com/news/id/2 Welcome http://www.chris-holden.com/news/id/1 Hello, bonjour, Guten Tag etc etc! Welcome to my little space on the web. I've had this domain for over two years now and I have never really put in the effort to create a serious website. It's not through not having the time, it was simply laziness and a distinct lack of anything interesting to put on here! Well only one of those situations has changed - I'm no longer lazy! Well that's half true, I… News chris@chris-holden.com Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:24:29 -0500 http://www.chris-holden.com/news/id/1