In our previous tutorials we showed you how to create a content slider similar to the one found in the iTunes program. Some readers requested the content slider loop continuously instead of rewinding back to the first thumbnail. We have modified the content slider to add this new feature. View the Demo » We start [...]
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Zipcode Proximity Search
May 6th, 2011The following PHP function is to search for zipcodes within X miles away from the zipcode searched. function getZipCodes($search, $miles_away) { ini_set(’memory_limit’, ’256M’); // set 128 MB memory limit $lines = file($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].’/demos/zipcode-proximity-search/zipcodes.csv’); foreach($lines AS $line) { $parts = explode("\",\"", $line); $zipcode = str_replace(’"’, "", $parts[0]); $latitude = $parts[1]; $longitude = $parts[2]; $type = $parts[5]; if($type [...]
Display Top Posts in WordPress with Google Analytics
March 24th, 2011In today’s tutorial we show you one way of displaying a list of the most popular posts in your WordPress template or sidebar. To do this you must first set up your site to use Google Analytics and make sure you’ve placed the code snippet in your theme’s footer.php. Next install the “Google Analytics Dashboard” [...]
How To Communicate with Web Developers
October 30th, 2010If you aren’t tech savvy, working with web developers can make you feel like you’re trying to speak to someone who speaks a different language than you. This simple tutorial can help you understand a few effective methods of speaking a web developer’s language. Referencing URLs URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, that’s the http:// [...]
jQuery iTunes-like Content Slider Revisited
July 26th, 2010Update: Also check out the updated version of this script: Clickable jQuery iTunes-like Content Slider w/ Looping. In our previous tutorial, we showed you how to create an iTunes-like content slider. Today we will show you how to modify the content slider so clicking on one of the thumbnails loads the image in the main [...]
