Evgeny Matsakov's blog

Drupal Highlighting module

Drupal Logo Syntax highlighting is very important when we want to show our code example on the Drupal site. It may be useful in the portfolio, if you're a programmer or in blog posts to highlight pieces of code.

This module integrates JQuery syntax Highlight plugin into Drupal for syntax highlighting of source code snippets in any Drupal contents.

Please feel free to check out and use our Drupal Highlighting module.

Cache Php Class

Php Logo There are many ready solutions for caching data on php, but I will propose own Cache Php Class. It is quite simple and will help to understand the mechanism of caching.

We will not be caching whole pages, this solution is outdated. In reality, only caching of individual blocks is used. And if more precisely, we will cache only the pure data, no html.

Cacher allows you to cache variables (anything that can be put into a variable) for later use. This speeds up loading time, and reduces load on the data source.

Text Replace php script

Php Logo When it's needed to replace some text in multiple html files, first of all you're starting thinking about this boring monotonous work.

For example, you have almost finished slicing about 30 pages from PSD to HTML. And the customer requests to replace JUST some of the links in the footer and one link in the header for example on each page. It's cool if you could use PHP or SSI includes. But if the customer wants a clean and simple HTML markup. What would you to do in this case?

Please feel free to check out and use our Text Replace php script.

JQuery syntax Highlight plugin

jQuery PluginThis plugin allows syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page. It is very important especially when we want to show our code example. There are a lot of free and useful syntax highlighting scripts around, but they are big, slow and have unnecessary functionality.
So that people can see examples of work in our portfolio, I wrote this little script to highlight HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript syntax. It's very simple and works quickly.

WordPress Category HTML Description plugin

Wordpress Plugin To more personalize your WordPress blog you can use the categories description. But WordPress uses content filters that strip out all but the most basic formatting tags. And we can not add HTML code for the categories descriptions.

Our team wrote a small WordPress Category HTML Description plugin, which solves this problem. Plugin disables content filters and any html code you add to the category description will not be stripped out.

JQuery version 1.4 was released!

jQueryToday, Jan. 14 is the anniversary of the jQuery library, which was released in 2006, 4 years ago. John Resig has written in his twitter that the library is already available for download. And though there is not a word about it at the site, John has promised to provide official information today.

Link to download jQuery 1.4.

Happy birthday to a wonderful project!

WordPress 2.9 is available

WordPressWordPress development team and community announced the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

Since WebCoding studio actively uses WordPress to develop websites, we always need to know the latest changes of this CMS.

The main new stuff from a user point of view is: