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Some Cool CSS and PHP Tricks

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.)

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

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>

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">

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); ?>

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 Saturday Jul 31st 2010

Then add this on your page where you want the date to appear:

Today's Date is <?php echo gmdate("l M dS Y"); ?>