Whilst making some updates to one of my WordPress plugins earlier today, I discovered an small issue when trying to make use of the dbDelta function.
Although it’s advised you avoid creating tables unless absolutely necessary, it seemed like the correct method to store the data used by this particular plugin. Read More
When re-designing my blog I wanted to display the first paragraph of each blog post in bold text. A CSS3 selector could have been used, but wouldn’t work in older browsers such as IE6.
Instead I decided to write a very simple function to add a class name to the first paragraph by filtering the content, then setting the styles accordingly in my theme CSS file. Read More
I’ve written a very simple jQuery function to return a string padded to a specified length, similar to the php equivalent str_pad.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $.strPad = function(i,l,s) { var o = i.toString(); if (!s) { s = '0'; } while (o.length < l) { o = s + o; } return o; }; |
Example Usage:
$.strPad(12, 5); // returns 00012 $.strPad('abc', 6, '#'); // returns ###abc
This version only supports left padding, which is why it is labelled as only a simple version 
.
“I have a geek lifestyle, except geeks don’t have a life. Or style!”
Hi, my name is Steve and this is my blog. I am a web developer based in the United Kingdom. I like (X)HTML, CSS, Flash, ActionScript3, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, [paste trendy words here] and Mapping APIs.