I’m working on a project that has a large database – about 14,000 business listings. It also has a page for a user to sign up and select which business they work at. 14,000 is way too many options for a SELECT (drop-down) field and I don’t want to put that much load on the MySQL database either. My solution: an auto-complete text field that reads from the WordPress database. I take it one step at a time, and make sure each step works correctly before starting the next step. Here are the steps I took to do it. Front-end JavaScript …
Dynamic Font/Image Replacement in Silverstripe
I’ve recently started creating sites with SilverStripe CMS, and I’m loving it. My client wants nicely rendered non-standard font titles that fade in and out, without using javascript. Here’s how I’m going to accomplish it: In Silverstripe’s mysite/code/Page.php I overload the onBeforeWrite() call in my Page class. This intercepts the data before it is written to the database. I can get the title of the updated page from $this->Title I will then use PHP’s GD (graphics) library to create a PNG with a transparent background. I’ll use imagettftext() to load a font from a TTF file and write it to …