Anthony Brown

Cubecart custom category order

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So I developed another new mod for cubecart, this one allows you to sort out your categories in cubecart the way you want without staying with the normal sort by name or id as seen in other mods. This mod only modifies 3 files and installs one column “pos” to your database to do the ordering. Remember to back up your database and files before attempting any modification on your original files. To download this file click on the link below.

Custom category ordering 1.0

custom_category_order_1.3 (updated for manual ordering)

mysql update from another table

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Recently I needed to update a bunch of rows in mysql with information from another table. I will explain how to do this simple process.

  1. Open up phpmyadmin or similar database editor
  2. view the sql query below
UPDATE updatefrom p, updateto pp 
SET pp.last_name = p.last_name 
WHERE pp.visid = p.id

Lets say we have 2 tables one named main and one named updateto and one named updatefrom, In the first line we assign variables to these t tables (p and pp) from there we can call column names using this format table.columname. If we had first_name and last_name in both tables and wanted to update the “updateto” table with the info from “updatefrom” this is how you would write it.

Jquery Wizard Plugin

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After looking for a jquery plugin that will emulate a windows wizard I decided to make my own (with the help of cody lindley’s css step menu). I am using Jquery which can be found here and css step menu found here.

The code:

First we need a simple javascript function will hide and display a div, this method is used with jquery and you can learn how to use this here

function loadnext(divout,divin){$("." + divout).hide();$("." + divin).fadeIn("slow");}

Next the html code, notice how each step is wrapped in the ID wizardwrapper and each div is assigned a class for the corresponding step number.

 


 



Step 1


 



 
       

      



 



Step 2


 



 
       

      



 



Step 3


 



 
       

      



 



Step 4


 



 
       

      



 



Step 5


 



 
       

 

A Demo of the wizard

Create Custom google maps

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I was browsing the google maps API the other day and came up on something pretty cool, google now allows you to make custom maps right on their website. Previously only the tech savvy knew how to accomplish through server side scripts such as PHP, not anymore! I played around with it a bit making a map for a website I’m working WCMP. You can draw lines, squares and circles and put markers wherever you want on the map. Google also boasts a rich editor to format the description of your marker even going as far as putting in pictures. This is a great tool for your clients website or even document a recent vacation you went one. Check it out, heres the one I made. If you make a cool map feel free to post it here so I can take a look.

Worcester Wide Web gets new website

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I started development on this new website you are currently viewing, this website is going to be a little bit different then the previous website I had up. I am going to focus on posting design code and snippets from php to ajax. This site is now sort of a side project as one of my contractors (one of the largest growing design firms in Worcester) opened up into what seems to becoming a full time employment position.  Dont get me wrong I am still taking projects on any scale but my time is just limited as of lately. I will be posting some new work as well as all my old work in the category “portfolio” and I will have a new get a quote section coming up very soon. So make sure you bookmark this website and check back soon.