If you were like me the first time you try to grab a feed via AJAX from another server you’ll spend quite some time trying to figure out why the hell your script isn’t working when everything is written perfectly. Then you do some research and find out you’re not allowed to use AJAX from server to server due to security issues. Darn it. Well, here is the work around I’ve been using for quite some time, and best of all, it’s only 2 lines of PHP and 1 line of jQuery.
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I wanted a way to encode emails so spam bots couldn’t steal emails on my Conrete5 site. At the same time I didn’t want the client to have to do anything different than he or she normally would to add an email through the WYSIWYG editor. I searched the forums and found a few solutions, however, they all had bugs. Worst of all, no one ever told anyone how or where to place the code! So here is how you can fight spam in C5:
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Al Gore has been going across the country forever it seems telling people about ways to stop global warming. About how just one person can make a difference. Today I bring you 10 Way You Can Help The Internet:
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I love Concrete5 and for the most part, creating themes for it is actually very easy. I’d say easier than WordPress. Recently however I was slicing a theme that needed to have the current page title and the parent page title on each sub page. Easy… right?
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For this blog I needed a way to put tags outside of “The Loop” and I couldn’t believe how hard it was. It should work just like categories, but of course it doesn’t because that would be too easy. I found a few forum posts, but I also noticed none of them made links of the tags they simply listed them. Another caveat was a trailing comma at the end of the tags.
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