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Helper to Display Rails Flash Messages

ianpurton () — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:35:07 GMT

A simple code snippet for displaying your flash[:warning] = "Warning Message" messages in rails.



def flash_helper

  

    f_names = [:notice, :warning, :message]

    fl = ''

    

    for name in f_names

      if flash[name]

        fl = fl + "#{flash[name]}"

      end

      flash[name] = nil;

    end

    return fl

  end

Wordpress HTML Outline

ianpurton () — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:42:27 GMT

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Move multiple options from one select to another

ianpurton () — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:59:41 GMT

// Theis code requires you include prototype.js





function copyOptions(from , to)

{

	for (var i=0; i < $(from).options.length; i++) 

	{

        if ($(from).options[i].selected) 

        {

            var optionName = new Option($(from).options[i].text, 

            	$(from).options[i].value);

            $(to).options[$(to).length] = optionName;

        }

    }

    remove($(from));

}



function remove(theSel)

{

  	var selIndex = theSel.selectedIndex;

  	if (selIndex != -1) 

  	{

	    for(i=theSel.length-1; i>=0; i--)

	    {

		      if(theSel.options[i].selected)

		      	theSel.options[i] = null;

	    }

    	if (theSel.length > 0) 

      		theSel.selectedIndex = selIndex == 0 ? 0 : selIndex - 1;

  	}

}

Place Timezone information into a cookie

ianpurton () — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:52:34 GMT

Set a cookie with the users timezone



//By default, getTimezoneOffset returns the time zone offset in minutes

setCookie("timezone", new Date().getTimezoneOffset()/60);



function setCookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) 

{

    document.cookie= name + "=" + escape(value) +

        ((expires) ? "; expires=" + expires.toGMTString() : "") +

        ((path) ? "; path=" + path : "") +

        ((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") +

        ((secure) ? "; secure" : "");

}