Category Archives: Musings

The html5 <audio> tag needs an mp3 file and and ogg file to be cross-browser compatible. For best results, only encode raw, wav, or aiff files this way. Mp3 to ogg will look like it works, but the file won't play on Firefox. Encode Install oggenc: $ sudo apt-get install vorbis-tools Encode: $ oggenc -q [...]

I was pulling my hair out over this because Magento failed to produce an .htaccess file after I enabled url rewrites on my local dev server. I searched the old internets and found nothing! I ended up using the same .htaccess arguments as I do for WordPress and it worked great. To enable url rewrites, [...]

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jQuery is included by default in Concrete5. Here’s how to add your own script: Put your .js file in the /js directory in the root of your Concrete5 install. In your theme’s elements/header.php file, add the following just before <?php Loader::element(‘header_required’); ?>: <?php $html = Loader::helper(‘html’); $this->addHeaderItem($html->javascript(‘my_script.js’)); ?> If you want to include your javascript [...]

An unchecked checkbox returns nothing when a form is submitted, but most of the time you want it to return something, so you can work with that $_POST variable. This is easy with the addition of a hidden input with the same name as your checkbox: <?php     // If the box was checked, keep it [...]