http://www.designing4u.de Yet Another Coding Blog Thu, 13 May 2010 13:24:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Displaying a transparent caption over an image is a nice way to show the visitors what a particular image is about. In this tutorial I will show you how you can accomplish that with less than 50 lines of jquery without downloading any fully featured plug-ins. I will also try ... http://www.designing4u.de/2010/05/simple-image-caption-with-jquery/ After a long time Google finally released the API which allows the read access to the Google Analytics accounts. Since I needed it to perform some analytics and included it into one of my projects written with Zend Framework. Zend framework provides a massive library collection which you can use ... http://www.designing4u.de/2009/09/accessing-google-analytics-api-with-zend-framework/ It's been a long time since I wrote my last post. Well, I was busy working and getting familiar with Zend Framework. Since the Zend Framework documentation is not really helpful when it comes to send emails using SMTP, I decided I show you how I accomplished that. /** * @author ... http://www.designing4u.de/2009/09/smpt-authentication-with-zend_mail/ Last time I wrote about handling a Google map event, which is triggered, when a user moves around the map. I only mentioned that I had to use this solution for one of my projects, which goal was to display companies branches in a certain distance radius. I decided that ... http://www.designing4u.de/2009/05/zip-code-search-using-jquery-and-google-maps-displaying-results-in-a-defined-radius/ Recently I was working on a project, in which the goal was to display all company branches within a certain distance, defined by a zip code and a range provided by user input. The solution was pretty simple. A user provides a zip code and the distance range, the script ... http://www.designing4u.de/2009/02/google-maps-and-jquery-loading-markers-when-user-moves-the-map/ It has been a long time since I wrote my last example, but I've been really busy. Lately I got a request to write an example about calculating the distance between two points using KML file. What I will show you in this example is how to provide an user ... http://www.designing4u.de/2008/11/google-maps-and-jquery-calculating-distance-between-two-points/ I just got a first request from a user of my site to help him with his problem. Let me describe it in detail. Assume that a user is visiting your site and he or she wants to place a marker on a google map displayed on your page. Additionally, ... http://www.designing4u.de/2008/08/google-maps-jquery-and-xml-saving-markers-with-user-input/ This time I will consider another case of loading content into div containers using jQuery, AJAX and JSON request. In an other example I showed you how you can simply load content into one div container using AJAX and provide a user show and hide button. In this example I ... http://www.designing4u.de/2008/07/jquery-show-hide-button-for-multiple-div-containers-with-ajax-and-json/ It's been a long time since I wrote my last post, but I kept myself busy with work. I'm just working with another web 2.0 project (yes, there will be another web 2.0 project :), which was written using symfony framework. I need to admit that my previous experience with ... http://www.designing4u.de/2008/07/symfony-no-error-message-on-empty-values-in-not-required-fields/ Because I didn't write anything in a long time and because I just changed the layout of my site, I decided to write a new example about jQuery and extend it this time with JSON. After studying google analytics I noticed that people are mostly interested in jQuery examples and ... http://www.designing4u.de/2008/06/loading-content-into-multiple-div-containers-using-jquery-and-json/