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Disable right click

Disable Right Click - PAGE WIDE EFFECT

<tbody oncontextmenu="return false">

HTML stripper

// description of your code here

str = <<HTML_TEXT
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
  <h1>Application error</h1>
  <p>Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like 
in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML_TEXT

puts str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")

snippet

Download code snippets (http://textsnippets.com) from the command line and convert them to text files using man textutil (on Mac OS X 10.4).

Usage:
snippet 345
snippet 1268
snippet 1281



# $ cat $HOME/.bash_login

function snippet() {
   mkdir -p $HOME/Desktop/Snippets
   OPWD="$PWD"
   cd $HOME/Desktop/Snippets
   curl -L -O -s --max-time 25 http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/"$1" || exit 1
   file="$HOME/Desktop/Snippets/$(basename $_)"
   textutil -convert txt "$file"
   rm "$file"
   new_file="$file.txt"
   sed -i "" -e '1,5d' -e 's/.See related posts.//' "$new_file"  # delete first 5 lines of file
   sed -i "" -e :a -e '1,6!{P;N;D;};N;ba' "$new_file"            # delete last 6 lines of file
   cd "$OPWD"
   return 0
}


JavaScript Roll Overs

// JavaScript roll overs

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
 var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
 var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
 if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
 var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
 d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
 if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
 for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
 if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
 var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
 if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
//-->
</script>

// html code
<a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','2.png',1)"><img src="1.png" name="Image1" width="155" height="71" border="0" id="Image1" /></a>

MailMan listserve signup template

Simple template for adding a MailMan mailing list subscribe form to a page. Found on a mailing list somewhere a long time ago and cleaned up dramatically.

Note: I almost always just include the email and digest options, but I've included the whole spiel for completeness.


<h2>Join the XYZ list</h2>

<form method="post" action="SERVER/mailman/subscribe/LISTNAME">

  <p>
    Your E-mail address: <input type="text" name="email" size="30" value=""><br />
    Your Name (optional): <input type="text" name="fullname" size="30" value=""><br />
  </p>

  <p>You may enter a privacy password below. This provides only mild security, but should<br />
  prevent others from messing with your subscription. <b>Do not use a valuable password</b> as it<br />
  will occasionally be emailed back to you in cleartext.</p>

  <p>If you choose not to enter a password, one will be automatically generated for you, and it will<br />
  be sent to you once you've confirmed your subscription. You can always request a mail-back<br />
  of your password when you edit your personal options.</p>

  <p>
    Password choice: <input type="password" name="pw" size="15"><br />
    Confirm Password: <input type="password" name="pw-conf" size="15">
  </p>

  <p>
    Would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? (You may choose NoMail after you join.)<br />
    <input type="radio" name="digest" value="0" checked> No 
    <input type="radio" name="digest" value="1"> Yes <br />
  </p>
  
  <p><input type="submit" name="email-button" value="Subscribe"></p>

</form>


HTML link regex

// use url group and ignore case (because of something like HREF)
// based on http://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=1048
href="(?<url>(((ht|f)tp(s?))\://)?((([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]{2,}\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,})|((?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]\d\d|\d?\d)(?(\.?\d)\.)){4}))(:[a-zA-Z0-9]+)?(/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\._\?\,\'/\\\+&amp;%\$#\=~]*)?)"

Standard CSS helpers

Some really common layout classes I use in almost every CSS file.

/********* helpers *********/
.floatRight { float: right; }
.floatLeft  { float: left; }
.right  { text-align: right; }
.left   { text-align: left; }
.center { text-align: center; }
.clear, .clearer { clear: both; }
.block  { display: block; }

PHP State-Array Generator

Simple array for HTML mockups.

function state_selection() {
	echo '<select name="state">';
		$states = array(
			'Alabama', 'Alaska', 'Arizona', 'Arkansas', 'California', 'Colorado', 'Connecticut', 'Delaware', 'District of Columbia', 'Florida', 'Georgia', 'Hawaii', 'Idaho', 'Illinois', 'Indiana', 'Iowa', 'Kansas', 'Kentucky', 'Louisiana', 'Maine', 'Maryland', 'Massachusetts', 'Michigan', 'Minnesota', 'Mississippi', 'Missouri', 'Montana', 'Nebraska', 'Nevada', 'New Hampshire', 'New Jersey', 'New Mexico', 'New York', 'North Carolina', 'North Dakota', 'Ohio', 'Oklahoma', 'Oregon', 'Pennsylvania', 'Rhode Island', 'South Carolina', 'South Dakota', 'Tennessee', 'Texas', 'Utah', 'Vermont', 'Virginia', 'Washington', 'West Virginia', 'Wisconsin', 'Wyoming'
		);
		foreach ($states as $state_name) {
			echo '<option value="'.$state_name.'">'.$state_name.'</option>';
		}
	echo '</select>';
}
state_selection();

US States Pop-up

Simply a pop-up form element of all 50 US States. Save you creating your own.

            <select name="state">
              <option value="" selected="selected">Select a state...</option>
              <option value="AL">Alabama</option>
              <option value="AK">Alaska</option>
              <option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
              <option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
              <option value="CA">California</option>
              <option value="CO">Colorado</option>
              <option value="CT">Connecticut</option>
              <option value="DC">District of Columbia</option>
              <option value="DE">Delaware</option>
              <option value="FL">Florida</option>
              <option value="GA">Georgia</option>
              <option value="HI">Hawaii</option>
              <option value="ID">Idaho</option>
              <option value="IL">Illinois</option>
              <option value="IN">Indiana</option>
              <option value="IA">Iowa</option>
              <option value="KS">Kansas</option>
              <option value="KY">Kentucky</option>
              <option value="LA">Louisiana</option>
              <option value="ME">Maine</option>
              <option value="MD">Maryland</option>
              <option value="MA">Massachusetts</option>
              <option value="MI">Michigan</option>
              <option value="MN">Minnesota</option>
              <option value="MS">Mississippi</option>
              <option value="MO">Missouri</option>
              <option value="MT">Montana</option>
              <option value="NE">Nebraska</option>
              <option value="NV">Nevada</option>
              <option value="NH">New Hampshire</option>
              <option value="NJ">New Jersey</option>
              <option value="NM">New Mexico</option>
              <option value="NY">New York</option>
              <option value="NC">North Carolina</option>
              <option value="ND">North Dakota</option>
              <option value="OH">Ohio</option>
              <option value="OK">Oklahoma</option>
              <option value="OR">Oregon</option>
              <option value="PA">Pennsylvania</option>
              <option value="RI">Rhode Island</option>
              <option value="SC">South Carolina</option>
              <option value="SD">South Dakota</option>
              <option value="TN">Tennessee</option>
              <option value="TX">Texas</option>
              <option value="UT">Utah</option>
              <option value="VT">Vermont</option>
              <option value="VA">Virginia</option>
              <option value="WA">Washington</option>
              <option value="WV">West Virginia</option>
              <option value="WI">Wisconsin</option>
              <option value="WY">Wyoming</option>
            </select>

Load javascript function from returned ajax HTML

Problem - calling a function in <script> tags from dynamic ajax results does not get executed by the browser

Resolution - make a pixel image and call the function with the onload event in the image

<img src="some_image.jpg" onload="someFunction();">