Web Design Tips, Tutorials, Info & more

get the current page name without full domain

2010-08-07T20:11:00.001-07:00

Use:

//function curPageName() {
return substr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],strrpos($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],"/")+1);
}

echo "This page name is ".curPageName();
?>//

This will give you just page.html etc..

Current Page Name in PHP

2010-08-07T20:08:00.000-07:00

Paste this code anywhere on your page or include:

//function curPageURL() {
$pageURL = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";}
$pageURL .= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
} else {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
return $pageURL;
}
?>//

Then you can output the current page name using:

// echo curPageURL();
?>//

Simple and easy, and a great little piece of code!

note**** remove the "//"

Transparent Flash Banner ads, or flash animations

2009-02-11T15:21:00.000-08:00

This is a question that comes up quite often. You see them all the time on sites like imdb.com or cnn.com - A flash file when rolled over with mouse activates into a larger banner. They are actually pretty annoying, but I must say usually are some of the most creative banner ads I see around.

I have found a nice easy transparent flash banner ad tutorial here for you:
http://www.webdesign.org/web/flash/tutorials/change-flash-size-at-run-time.7633.html

Unfortunately this is done in a flash ( like ) program. If there is a demand, I can post a tutorial on doing this in Adobe Flash.

Break up XML feeds using php - Tutorial

2009-02-11T15:19:00.001-08:00

A lot of people seem to ask how to do this. A client asked me once for a similar solution, and once I researched a little about this, I found it was quite simple to do. I will explain more in a full tutorial soon.

Space in above dhtml menu in firefox

2009-01-30T21:48:00.000-08:00

One day I all of a sudden noticed my website was not displaying correctly, I had spaces above images, and spaces above my dhtml drop down menu. I spent a little time trying to find the answer by searching Google, and eventual found my solution.

Just place this into your css file:

object { display:block; }

or if you do not have a css file, use :

in between the head tags of course :)

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