Elie Khoury

When I was developing phpLiveTalk, I wanted to send some URL encoded text in the AJAX response. I encoded the text using urlencode() php function, but the decoding on the client side (JavaScript) was an issue!

Why?

The JavaScript unescape() function does not understand the ‘+’ (Plus) in the encoding of ‘ ‘ (Space). Actually, it should be %20. So why not replacing all the + with %20 then unescape()!!!

Bingo… Solved.

Here’s the code you may use:

message = unescape(replaceAll(message, '+', '%20'));

function replaceAll( str, from, to ) {
    var idx = str.indexOf( from );
    while ( idx > -1 ) {
        str = str.replace( from, to );
        idx = str.indexOf( from );
    }
    return str;
}

Good Luck!

When I was working on phpLiveTalk, I decided to have a background for the text inputs in forms. I couldn’t find a decent hack to make it work on both IE and Mozilla! So I came out with a solution! Here it is:

input[type="text"], input[type="password"], input[type="file"] {
	border: solid 1px #336699;
	color: #336699;
	background-image: url('images/input-text-bg.png');
}

/* this is for IE */
input {
	border: expression(this.type=="text" || this.type=="password" || this.type=="file" ? "solid 1px #336699" : "this.border");
	color: expression(this.type=="text" || this.type=="password" || this.type=="file" ? "#336699" : "this.color");
	_background-image: none;
	_background-image: expression(this.type=="text" || this.type=="password" || this.type=="file" ? "url('theme/default/images/input-text-bg.png')" : "this.background-image");
}

Working perfectly…

Hey friends,

I developed a small addon that updates scores of current World Cup matches, and displays them in your MSN Messenger Personnal Message (PSM)…

Make sure u give it a shot!

World Cup MSN Messenger Addon

btw, the .Net Framework is required to be able to run it! so download it if the program did not run

See ya

World Cup MSN Messenger Addon (Spanish)

Nota: necesitas el .Net Framework para que te funcione correctamente, si no lo descargas el programa no te funcionará

Nos vemos

3 years ago… We, Magma band, were recording a song to join the anti drugs competition at Peak Hall… We were young, SCHOOl DAYS . Anyway, to remember those days, I uploaded the video to YouTube.com (The quality’s not that good…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmUPvYRxRcc

Enjoy!!! (Hope so :$)

See ya

I’ve been working for a while on phpLiveTalk. A cross browser chatting engine developed using AJAX techniques and php/mysql on the server side…

Here’s the development page: http://www.phplivetalk.com

I decided to have a project page on sourceforge.net maybe I can get in touch with few contributors… If you wanna contribute, leave a message.

DEDICATED SERVER WOULD BE VERY HELPFULL (help needed!!!)

see ya later…

As a java developer, I’ve been using Intellij IDEA IDE for about 3 years to manage my java projects. I was quite happy and satisfied with this environment. As a web developer, I’ve been using Macromedia Dreamweaver and it wasn’t bad at all!!!

Suddenly I decided to try Eclipse IDE! WoW is the least I can say. My java and php projects were scrambled… I needed a common environment for all my projects, from web to desktop java applications. Eclipse did the job! PHPEclipse plugin is really great…

If you’re a Java, C++, C#, php, etc… developer make sure you try Eclipse… IT REALLY ROCKS!!

I’m in the middle of my exams, See you soon guys!!