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Insanely easy tabbed web pages with Prototype

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I came across this today when trying to find an easier way to present a six-part form in a Rails project - a tabbed interface system built upon Prototype (an integral part of Rails). Called Control.Tabs it makes tabbed interfaces a synch to do: simply add an unordered list containing links to the blocks containing your to-be-tabbed content, and add a line of JavaScript to start the ball rolling - that's it!

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Two most important things for PHP development

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After having developed in PHP for many years I've realized that the two most important things a developer can do are:

Those two simple changes will greatly help reduce problems in your code. Now to just get all OSS developers to do the same...

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Making a form reset button in Rails

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Rails doesn't have reset_tag to automatically make a form reset button, instead you have to take a slightly different route. To make a form reset button in Rails you simply do this:
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< %= submit_tag("Start Over", { :name => 'reset', :id => 'reset_button', :type => "reset" }) %>
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which will create the following:
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Strip HTML in any string in Ruby

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A little code snippet to let you remove HTML from any string in Ruby:
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class String

# remove all HTML tags from the source string
def strip_html
self.gsub(/< \/?[^>]*>/, "")
end

end
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Then to run the code just do this:
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blurb_html = "

Thanks for visiting our site.

"
blurb_text = blurb_html.strip_html
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