Joshua + Schaible + Blog » Javascript http://www.joshuaschaible.com/blog My World. Fri, 14 May 2010 18:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Add Falling Snow To Your Website With Javascript! http://www.joshuaschaible.com/blog/add-falling-snow-to-your-website-with-javascript/ http://www.joshuaschaible.com/blog/add-falling-snow-to-your-website-with-javascript/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:57:35 +0000 Joshua Schaible http://www.joshuaschaible.com/blog/?p=2093 snow

It’s that time again! The holidays are here and snow is everywhere. (At least where I live.) Here i’m going to show you how with one line of code and one JavaScript file, you can have a light snow storm on your website.

Step One

Download the snowstorm.js file. Then upload the javascript file into the root folder of your website or your designated /js/ folder.

Step Two

Place this code in the <head> tags or the footer of your website:

<script src="snowstorm.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

or

<script src="js/snowstorm.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Customizing

Inside the snowstorm.js file will be several options you can configure such as snow speed, snow color, snow size, how it interacts with mouse movements and so on. If you have questions, post it in the comments!

The Demo

View the demo here!

Code by Scott Schiller – http://schillmania.com

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Say your switching domains and you want to automatically forward users that go to your old domain, to get forwarded them to your new one. This can be accomplished with either Javascript or PHP.

Using Javascript

Insert this Javascript code into the head of your page (Most likely your index file):

<script type="text/javascript">
function delayer(){
    window.location = "http://joshuaschaible.com"
}
</script>

Replace “http://joshuaschaible.com/” with that URL you want to forward your users too. Then you must insert an “onload” function in your body tag. It should look like this:

<body onLoad="setTimeout(‘delayer()’, 5000)">

This tells the browser to forward to the site you specificed in 5 seconds. 5 Seconds = 5000. 4 Seconds = 4000 and so on.

Using PHP

If you want to automatically forward your users with out a delay, here is a simple step. First your index file must have an extention of .php. (ex. index.php) If it doesn’t you can do this in your control panel or FTP. Next, insert this code at the top of your web page.

<?php
  header ("Location: http://joshuaschaible.com");
?>

Again, make sure to change the URL so that your site doesn’t forward to mine.

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Every once and a while I like to send my friends prank text messages to make them think someone is watching them. The problem is every time I use a free service, they some how cram an ad or spam into the message. I’m going to show you how you can send your own text messages using HTML/PHP. Demo & Download Included!

First

Create the form that you’ll put in your HTML:

<form id="sms" name="sms" method="post" action="sms/send_sms.php">

<input name="to" type="text" id="to" />

<select name="carrier" id="carrier">

           <option value="att">AT&amp;T</option>
           <option value="verizon">Verizon</option>
           <option value="tmobile">T-Mobile</option>
           <option value="sprint">Sprint</option>
           <option value="virgin">Virgin Mobile</option>

</select>

<textarea name="message" rows="6" id="message"></textarea>

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send" />

</form>

Second

Now we need the PHP to send the text message:

<?php
$to = $_POST[‘to’];
$carrier = $_POST[‘carrier’];
$message = stripslashes($_POST[‘message’]);
$headers = ‘From: QuickText <no-reply@quicktext.com>’ . "\r\n";

if ((empty($to)) || (empty($message))) {
header ("Location: ../sms_error.php");
}

else if ($carrier == "verizon") {
$formatted_number = $to."@vtext.com";
mail("$formatted_number", " TXT Message", "$message" , "$headers");

header ("Location: ../sms_success.php");
}

else if ($carrier == "tmobile") {
$formatted_number = $to."@tomomail.net";
mail("$formatted_number", " TXT Message", "$message" , "$headers");

header ("Location: ../sms_success.php");
}

else if ($carrier == "sprint") {
$formatted_number = $to."@messaging.sprintpcs.com";
mail("$formatted_number", " TXT Message", "$message" , "$headers");

header ("Location: ../sms_success.php");
}

else if ($carrier == "att") {
$formatted_number = $to."@txt.att.net";
mail("$formatted_number", " TXT Message", "$message" , "$headers");
header ("Location: ../sms_success.php");
}

else if ($carrier == "virgin") {
$formatted_number = $to."@vmobl.com";
mail("$formatted_number", " TXT Message", "$message" , "$headers");

header ("Location: ../sms_success.php");
}

?>

The code above creates the MINIMUM basics that you need to send a text message. So I went ahead and added some simple styling, validation, support for the iPhone browser and more. Check out the demo and download the files below!

Feel free to use this code, build upon it and share it. But if you would be so kind, leave the footer link in the files. Thank you!

*Javascript used in this code example was written by my wife Lauren Schaible.

demodownload

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