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iScaffold 2.0 preview

I'm a little bit lazy and I prefer the challenging parts of coding, not the boring, repetitive ones. I read somewhere that a great percentage of development time is spent on creating basic CRUD functionality. I had to find something to get rid of this, so I did a little research on which is the best tool for PHP to generate CRUD source code.

Since I was using CodeIgniter for a while, I searched the forums for CRUD solutions and I found this forum thread. After downloading the package, I instantly loved the idea, that you can generate CRUD code based on source code templates. Just a click and models, views, controllers are ready to use, customized for your database schema.

Although the 1.1 is really cool, I missed a lot of features, that I added later.

Category: Programming - Tags: iscaffold crud php codeigniter - 10

Wikipedia excerpt over DNS service

One of 2009's coolest web mashup is David Leadbeate's Wikipedia DNS service. What it does is very simple: it returns an excerpt from a Wikipedia article in a TXT DNS record.

- What? Dynamic contents in a DNS text record? From Wikipedia?
- Yes!

For example, all you need is love PHP.

  // dns_get_record is a built in PHP function
  $knowledge = dns_get_record( 'trentemoller.wp.dg.cx' );
  var_dump( $knowledge );

Category: Programming - Tags: php wikipedia dns - 1

How to write drag and drop code from scratch?

Drag and drop is a very cool feature in the browsers too, if really needed. Most JS libraries has this functionality, from jQuery to MooTools. But how they do it?

Well, it's not black magic, actually really simple.


The idea
You need to combine two different mouse events: mouseDown and mouseMove, then track the mouse position, update an elements position, finally cancel the mouseMove event on mouseUp.

The goal
Create a freely movable window that you can move with a handle.

Click "read more" to see the codes.

Category: Programming - Tags: javascript tutorial drag-and-drop - 2