To clear the values of a text input box

Add this to your input fields to clear the text box:
<INPUT name="keyword" type="text" value="Search..." onFocus="this.value=''" size="8">
Example: (click inside the input box and the text should automatically disappear. Much nicer than making your visitors delete any existing values inside the box themselves.)

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Change cell background color onmouseover

To use onmouseover command to change the background color of <td> table cells when visitors place their cursor over the cell (hover):
<td onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#8EBBE4';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#ffffff';">

Example:

Hold your mouse over this cell

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Change text of links in status bar

To modify the text shown in the status bar when a visitor places their cursor over links (hovers) using onmouseover (useful for hiding really long, ugly affiliate links):

Link Example (watch status bar below)

<a href="http://mydomain.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://domain.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;">My Link</a>

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Replace the standard form submit button with an image

Replace the standard form submit button with an image
<INPUT TYPE="IMAGE" SRC="images/gobutton2.gif" ALT="Go find it for me!!" WIDTH="20" WIDTH="19" BORDER="0" align="middle">

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PHP

To replace text throughout your site

For example, if you want to change all "&" symbols to the word "and" in titles ($title) on your site:
str_replace('&','and',$title);

If you need to change a lot of words or symbols, you can create an array function. This is really useful if you have an affiliate site and need to change a merchant's description to avoid search engine penalties.

function Reword($desc) { $search = array ('/word1/','/word2/','/word3/','/word4/'); $replace = array ('newword1','newword2','newword3','newword4'); $newdesc=preg_replace($search, $replace, $desc); return $newdesc; }
Then somewhere on the page where you would like the text replaced:

<?php Reword('The text you would like replaced'); ?>
or
if the text is being pulled from a database or defined elsewhere:
<?php Reword($TheOldText); ?>

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To automatically display monthly announcements on your site

Great if you want to display scheduled promotions or announcements on a monthly basis.

At the top of your page (with the php tags) or in a separate file such as functions.php:
function holidays() { $month = date("n"); if ($month == 1) $holiday1 = "It's a new year!"; if ($month == 2) $holiday1 = "Happy Valentine's Day"; if ($month == 3) $holiday1 = "It's almost Easter"; if ($month == 4) $holiday1 = "April showers bring May flowers"; if ($month == 5) $holiday1 = "Happy Memorial Day"; if ($month == 6) $holiday1 = "School's almost out"; if ($month == 7) $holiday1 = "Fourth of July"; if ($month == 8) $holiday1 = "Dog Days of Summer"; if ($month == 9) $holiday1 = "Back To School"; if ($month == 10) $holiday1 = "Happy Halloween"; if ($month == 11) $holiday1 = "Happy Thanksgiving</a>"; if ($month == 12) $holiday1 = "Happy Holidays</a>"; echo $holiday1; }
Then add this on your page where you want the announcements to appear:
<?php holidays(); ?>

To display today's day

Today's Date is Thursday Apr 18th 2024


Then add this on your page where you want the date to appear:
Today's Date is <?php echo gmdate("l M dS Y"); ?>