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Insert Flash Media Embed Code TinyMCE Plugin
03.22.2010 02:19PM by Evan Johnson
Web Development, JavaScript
I’ve run into a problem providing my clients good, easy-to-use media embed functionality with the existing JavaScript WYSIWYG editors. The big players, CKEditor (formery FCKEditor) and TinyMCE both provide a "Flash" button which works okay with YouTube and other large video providers, but what about embedding a Picasa slideshow? None of the WYSIWYG editors come with plugin to just insert some HTML code....
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Learning Drupal Module Dev: Dependent AHAH/AJAX Forms
03.21.2010 11:32PM by Evan Johnson
Web Development, CMS
So, I've been working on a simple module for a Drupal project lately. I wanted to have two administrator settings for the module, the second of which depends on the first. A "dependent dropdown". It would be cool if it was "AJAXy" too, I thought. Well, it just so turns out that in Drupal 6 there are built in AHAH (Asychronous HTML and HTTP) functions in the Forms API...
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How to programmatically create Views in Drupal 6
01.14.2010 10:08PM by Evan Johnson
CMS, Web Development
So, this stumped me for a while. I needed my small custom Drupal module to select a bunch of nodes based on a CCK Date field and the Publish status. It is a pain to query the CCK tables directly, so every forum post I could find told me to do this via Views. That’s all well and good, but the instructions for doing this all involved creating...
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Unobtrusive jCarousel page/tab external controls with jQuery
01.14.2010 10:49AM by Evan Johnson
JavaScript, Web Development
I am using the very slick and enjoyable jCarousel plugin for jQuery on a new project to display featured content on the front page. I wanted to use the external controls to allow users to easily jump between slides. However, all the examples I found required hard-coding the control links into the document HTML. This is not best practice because when JavaScript is disabled and the...