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• Feb

  18

  2009

  Be Careful parsing your URL string with Javascript

  …so I know you’ve looked around the net for a good method to parse URL variables with javascript, and I’m sure that you’ve found some elegant method that looks something like:
  function parseLocation() {
  var turl = window.location.search;
  ar = turl.split(’&’);
  var b = {};

  for (var i = 0; i < ar.length; i++) {
  var c = ar[i].split(’=');
  b[c[0]] = c[1];
  }
  return [...]

  posted in ajax, coding, hackery, javascript by chip

• Jul

  02

  2008

  Stupid IE6 and its iframe cookie idiocy needs a throat punch

  …so let’s say you have a site, that has two versions, a.throat-punch.com and b.throat-punch.com. And Apache uses a cookie to determine which version you should be viewing, and sends a 302 redirect if you’re on the wrong domain.
  Now let’s say you want to access a page on this site from an <iframe> from an external [...]

  posted in ajax, coding, rant by chip

• Feb

  15

  2008

  Elegant little PHP JSON encoder

  update: Jay Williams has flushed this out to be a lot more useful. Check out his rendition here.
  …so I wrote (what I think is a) clever little function (well, two functions) to take a complex php variable and turn it into a json-ized string, ready to be passed back to javascript. It works on the [...]

  posted in ajax, coding, json, php by chip