Comments for Wil Linssen - Multimedia Developer & Designer

Comment on Apple’s Advertising: The Holistic Synergy by A Passer By

A Passer By — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:55:23 +0000

I too have started computing using Microsoft Products but after a year or so my techno-geekish curiosity pushed me to install GNU/Linux and since then I’m a long time *nix user. Early this year I developed an interest into buying a Mac and while wandering around I found out that it’s ridiculously easy to build a hackintosh aorund my laptop so I thought “That would be the perfect way to finally make up my mind whether to buy it or not!” I was excited since it was going to be my first close encounter with OS X. Getting through a few hardware issues something (I got used to in my early *nix days) I got OS X installed and after a couple of hours of playing with it I had only one clear thought in my mind “No thanks, I’m sticking to my *nix machines with KDE 3.5″ and off goes Apple from my machine.

Comment on Expression Engine - Removing index.php by Rolando Murillo

Rolando Murillo — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:18:17 +0000

Perfect! Thanks.

Comment on Expression Engine - Removing index.php by Carl

Carl — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:30:26 +0000

@leonism after you have added the .htaccess file you need to go to your (EE) CP

Admin > System Preferences > General Configuration

and remove the line were it say Index.php and click update

that removed it for me if you havent done that already

Comment on jQuery Sortable Lists With Drag Drop Handle by soulcrazy

soulcrazy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:17:10 +0000

Ah! Thank you for this code. I managed to implement additional effects into this for an amazing result.

Email me if you would like the source. I’d be happy to share.

Comment on jQuery Sortable Lists With Drag Drop Handle by wil.linssen

wil.linssen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:18:58 +0000

@Lionel You'll probably want to create another PHP file that will receive, handle and return your variables from the jQuery. Add a function into the update part to do just that, and there is plenty on that in the jQuery docs. Alternatively you could just Google jQuery AJAX POST (or GET.)

Comment on Expression Engine - Removing index.php by wil.linssen

wil.linssen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:11:23 +0000

@leonism Do you get any errors? If you load a page that should run the rule does your expression engine site load at all?

If you like I can take a look for you, get in touch and I’ll see if I can help.

Comment on Expression Engine - Removing index.php by wil.linssen

wil.linssen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:38:09 +0000

@Leevi That’s a great point about the individual files, a nice way around that would be to add some extensions to the rule to be ignored. I’ve added a bit to the rule, that should stop that.

Comment on Expression Engine - Removing index.php by leonism

leonism — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:00:49 +0000

Yes, I met all the technical server requirement just fine. Apache 2.xx, mod_rewrite, .htaccess and everything working out just fine with other cms such as textpattern and wordpress for the permalink structures.
But when it comes to EE, I tried my methods, they simply don’t work. Oh btw, I’m on site5.com as my hosting provider.
Many thanks linssen.

Comment on Expression Engine - Removing index.php by Leevi Graham

Leevi Graham — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:32:50 +0000

Hey Wil,

There are a couple of major issues using the “File and Directory Check” method of URL rewriting. One of the biggest is no 404 errors for missing images and other files.

The other issue is a performance issue. If you are missing an image your site will render an entire EE page rather than a simple 404 error. Think of a page with 4 missing images; you would infact be rendering 5 EE pages which will slow down your site a whole bunch.

I always used the “Include Method” but it also had a couple of issue, namely manually generating the template groups and that pages were not included in the example.

I have solved this issue with LG .htaccess Generator which automatically generates your .htaccess file for you when an entry or template group is created or modified.

Check it out here: http://leevigraham.com/cms-customisation/expressionengine/lg-htaccess-generator/

Cheers Leevi

Comment on jQuery Sortable Lists With Drag Drop Handle by Lionel

Lionel — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:28:20 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for sharing
can we use persistence?
Can you point me to where I could grab myself an ajax script to insert the array in a databse?