Making Cookies with PHP

I’ve been going nuts over the past month trying to complete a project for a large retail store and it seems like every new request they make requires me to learn something new about PHP. Coding challenges are always great because they lead you to discover new ways to take advantage of what your coding language has to offer. This one is pretty straightforward but great to know.

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How to Add Nested Comments to Your WordPress Theme

When WordPress 2.7 came out, there were a lot of new features, most of which probably passed by under your radar. I know I missed a bunch and thankfully, I am starting to notice how much more powerful WordPress has become. I had someone request making my Magazine Basic theme function with nested comments and that started me on researching just how this new WP feature worked. It ended up being a harder nut to crack than I first thought, but crack it I did (though I probably spend way too much time on it).

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Making <p> and <br> Tags Work with htmlText in ActionScript 3.0

I had one hell of a time trying to figure out why my paragraph breaks (<p>) and line breaks (<br>) were not working when I was using htmlText in Flash CS3 with ActionScript 3.0. All of the other HTML tags that are allowed by Flash worked fine, but those two break tags just would do anything. I had created a TextField variable called “info” and all the code checked out but there was one very important thing that I needed to put in place before it would all work the way I needed it to.

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How to Draw a Rectangle with ActionScript 3.0

I spent the last weekend working on a Flash animation for a client and I came across a few things that gave me a headache and other things that I thought I should share with the world that I thought were just intereting.

If you have ever messed around with ActionScript in Flash then you understand just how powerful scripting in Flash could be. I know they just released CS4 but the ActionScript version it uses is still 3.0, so whether you are using CS3 or CS4 this will still work for you.

Sure drawing a rectangle is no big feat but there are a few little things that make it a little bit complicated when trying to draw one entirely in ActionScript.

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Modifying the WordPress Tag Cloud Widget Font Size

Using WordPress widgets for your sidebar really makes things easy on programmers and especially on users. The only problem I have come across is customizing the widgets so that they work exactly how you need and look the best for your specific design.

I needed to manipulate the Tag Cloud widget so that the size of the largest font was not too big. It only took going in and changing one line in the widgets.php files. I wouldn’t suggest doing this unless you are somewhat comfortable with messing around with your code.

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