Daniel J. Choi

How to Remove the Top Border from Drupal Tables

Dev

I’ve been very busy developing a couple projects over the past couple days, but here is a quick little trick to get around one of Drupal’s quirks. If you’re unfamiliar with Drupal, it’s a fantastic CMS (content management system) built on PHP and MySQL. For those blog-savvy among us, it is to general websites what WordPress is to blogs. I use Drupal to get sites up quickly and with great functionality, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to build powerful, custom websites without “re-inventing the wheel.”

Anyway, Drupal has this strange quirk in its source that creates a small grey border on the top of tables inserted in a page’s content.  A quick trip to my inspector revealed how to remove the top border from Drupal tables.  Simply add the following line to your CSS.

body tbody { border-top: none; }

All there is to it. 🙂

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Office 2007 MIME Types

Dev

Here’s a list of MIME Types for Office 2007 files (those pesky files extensions that end with an x). Useful for file type checking in web applications and the like.

  • .docm – application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12
  • .docx – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
  • .dotm – application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12
  • .dotx – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template
  • .potm – application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12
  • .potx – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template
  • .ppam – application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12
  • .ppsm – application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12
  • .ppsx – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow
  • .pptm – application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12
  • .pptx – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
  • .xlam – application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12
  • .xlsb – application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12
  • .xlsm – application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12
  • .xlsx – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
  • .xltm – application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12
  • .xltx – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template

How to Integrate Propel 2 with Laravel 4.1.x

Dev

I was recently doing some prototyping with Laravel, the self-proclaimed “PHP Framework for Web Artisans”.  It seems to be gaining quite some traction within the framework community, and it boasts some cool features such as dependency injection via an Inversion of Control container and a groovy command-line interface called Artisan.  Even better, the framework documentation is clearly written, detailed enough to dig beneath surface level, and (most importantly) it works.

Laravel ships with its own home-brewed ORM called Eloquent (based on the Active Record pattern), but I wanted to see how easy or difficult it would be to integrate another popular ORM, Propel, into the framework.  This would be an important consideration if a project were already using Propel with another framework, but wanted to transition to Laravel without having to rewrite its data mappings.  I found a solid post online that outlined an integration for Laravel 4 and Propel 1.6, but Propel is now in version 2 so some steps were no longer accurate.  I ended up figuring my way around the integration, and wanted to share my notes in this post.

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How to Wrap Text in a jQuery Mobile List

Dev

I’ve been doing some development in jQuery Mobile, and though it’s still in Alpha, it’s a great library. That said, there are still some serious bugs in it and some other less than ideal things happening. In any case, working with jQuery Mobile has certainly helped my debugging skills along.  🙂  One of the toughest issues that almost had me pulling out my hair was figuring out how to wrap text in a jQuery Mobile list.  Read on for the fix.

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