@ZachSaucier More people will be online soon. You might find it useful to check the library for general art and design books around the subject. Especially where they critically analyse design work. What works and what doesn't is a bit subjective so it could be a difficult question to answer.
Question to InDes users. I have a typeface (Gotham) with alternate characters. In this case, I want to use the alternate 'a'. Is there a way to always use it by default, or is find and replace the only option?
@ZachSaucier A question about asymmetry could be interesting but you'll need to find some specific question. So far all you're saying is a question about using it. I think that'll be too broad. Of course these days it seems people will answer anything.
well I'm looking for OpenSource so could always write up additional functionality ourselves. What we need is fairly basic. Just somewhere to store contacts, when we met them, and if they've already received our basic informational package and when. We just don't want to keep sending the same information over and over to people.
@ZachSaucier what would be the simplest way to create a drop down based on a previous drop down? I guess AJAX is going to be needed so the page doesn't refresh. I have the values for the second drop-down in a CSV but I'm open to any solution that's easy. It's State Selection then County Selection.
Found bitrepository.com/… but not sure if its an elegant solution or not. Seems a bit clunky having all of those .js files just to make it a tad faster
if I were to do it from scratch, I'd structure that CSV into JSON as a nested tree, then set an event listener to fire whenever the value of the parent select value changes
and populate the child select element with values from the JSON object
you would only need to use XHR if you wanted to keep the values on the server, but in this case you'd be better off just sending everything from the start to avoid the unnecessary requests
that be cool if it doesn't take you long otherwise don't worry about it. I'm making good progress figuring this stuff out
made a Database, established a PDO connection, queried the database with prepared statements, if else statement if no results are found, and now have a working form just not dropdown on the counties yet.
currently I'm looking into making a second null check to display website since not all rows have a website
our old dealer locator thing was written with PHP 4 and CSV. It's over 600 lines of the ugliest PHP I've ever seen including switches and cases for each state
sounds like it might be an ancient bit of code from when JavaScript was not so popularly used for web design
PHP has a built in utility to convert PHP arrays into JSON, you could build all the states/counties as an array in PHP then use that to send it to the client as JSON
the only downside to doing it like that is searchability @Ryan. If I were doing it I'd likely have all in the HTML by default, only showing one based on the first select