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1. August 2017

GreenApe Kill me Quick Power Espresso Label 2017

Custom front and back labels for the coffee packaging. Currently only available in Germany.

18. June 2017

Hexagons & grids do not mix … are you sure ?

CSS responsive grid of hexagons allows you to easily create just that for images and some text. Nice way to present a portfolio.

The hexagon grid is responsive according to the width of the container (#hexGrid)
Hexagons keep their aspect ratio according to their width
The number of hexagons per row is adaptive and changes from 5 to 2 on media query break points
A title and short text slide in on hexagon hover and focus
Hexagons and can be cycled through with tab (keyboard navigation)

GitHub

18. June 2017

Unicode slugs with ease

What is a slug ?
A slug is a part of a URL which identifies a particular page on a website in a form readable by users. It’s the nice part of the URL, which explains the page’s content. In WordPress, it’s the editable part of your URL that you can edit when writing a new post.

nSlug allows to create those urls for any language easily.

use NSlug\SlugGenerator;

$options = [
    'limit'     => null,
    'delimiter' => '-',
    'lowercase' => true,
];

$slugGenerator = new SlugGenerator($options);

// English strings.
echo $slugGenerator->generate('Hello World'); // Prints 'hello-world'.
echo $slugGenerator->generate('Life is too short!'); // Prints 'life-is-too-short'.

// Arabic strings.
echo $slugGenerator->generate('صباح جميل'); // Prints 'صباح-جميل'.
echo $slugGenerator->generate('مساء الخير'); // Prints 'مساء-الخير'.

use NSlug\SlugGenerator;

$options = [

'limit' => null,

'delimiter' => '-',

'lowercase' => true,

];

$slugGenerator = new SlugGenerator($options);

// English strings.

echo $slugGenerator->generate('Hello World'); // Prints 'hello-world'.

echo $slugGenerator->generate('Life is too short!'); // Prints 'life-is-too-short'.

// Arabic strings.

echo $slugGenerator->generate('صباح جميل'); // Prints 'صباح-جميل'.

echo $slugGenerator->generate('مساء الخير'); // Prints 'مساء-الخير'.

GitHub

18. June 2017

Tasty CSS-animated hamburger menu icons

Hamburgers is a collection of tasty CSS-animated hamburger icons. Also included is the source as a Sass library. It’s modular and customizable, so cook up your own hamburger.

<link href="dist/hamburgers.css" rel="stylesheet">

<button class="hamburger hamburger--collapse" type="button">
  <span class="hamburger-box">
    <span class="hamburger-inner"></span>
  </span>
</button>

</span>

</button>

GitHub

18. June 2017

Export SVG Animations for the Web with Snap.SVG Animator

Snap.svg Animator is an open sourced plugin for Animate CC that exports animations for the web rendered in SVG.

It uses the Snap.svg JavaScript library to dynamically draw SVG content at runtime. Snap.svg is a JavaScript library created by Dmitry Baranovskiy, who also created Raphaël.js.

A simple API allows you to write and manipulate SVG content in the browser.

Adobe Plugin / Snap.SVG

14. May 2017

Secure BCrypt hashed passwords for WordPress

“wp-password-bcrypt is a WordPress plugin to replace WP’s outdated and insecure MD5-based password hashing with the modern and secure bcrypt.”

GitHub

14. May 2017

Lets fix the short comings of current CSS integrations – EQCSS / Element queries

“Element queries are a new way of thinking about responsive web design where the responsive conditions apply to elements on the page instead of the width or height of the browser.
Unlike CSS @media queries, @element Queries are aware of more than just the width and height of the browser, you can write responsive conditions for a number of different situations like how many characters of text or child elements an element contains.
Another concept that element queries brings to CSS is the idea of ‘scoping’ your styles to one element in the same way that JavaScript functions define a new scope for the variables they contain.”

Element Query Conditions

14. May 2017

Fixing broken HTTP Basic Authentication (CGI/FastCGI under Apache)

PHP

if( !isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) )
{
    if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION']) && (strlen($_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION']) > 0)){
        list($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'], $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) = explode(':', base64_decode(substr($_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'], 6)));
        if( strlen($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) == 0 || strlen($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) == 0 )
        {
            unset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']);
            unset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']);
        }
    }
}

if( !isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) )

{

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION']) && (strlen($_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION']) > 0)){

list($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'], $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) = explode(':', base64_decode(substr($_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'], 6)));

if( strlen($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) == 0 || strlen($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) == 0 )

{

unset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']);

unset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']);

}

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]

</IfModule>

14. May 2017

Inspired but not a copy – Underscore.php

Underscore.php features a good hundred of methods for all kinds of types : strings, objects, arrays, functions, integers, etc., and provides a parsing class that help switching from one type to the other mid-course.

Underscore.php

14. May 2017

Modern API to process – URI – in PHP

Simple and extensible API
RFC3986 compliant
Implements PSR-7 UriInterface interface
Framework-agnostic

use League\Uri\Parser;

$parser = new Parser();
var_export($parser('http://foo.com?@bar.com/'));
//returns the following array
//array(
//  'scheme' => 'http',
//  'user' => null,
//  'pass' => null,
//  'host' => 'foo.com',
//  'port' => null,
//  'path' => '',
//  'query' => '@bar.com/',
//  'fragment' => null,
//);

use League\Uri\Parser;

$parser = new Parser();

var_export($parser('http://foo.com?@bar.com/'));

//returns the following array

//array(

// 'scheme' => 'http',

// 'user' => null,

// 'pass' => null,

// 'host' => 'foo.com',

// 'port' => null,

// 'path' => '',

// 'query' => '@bar.com/',

// 'fragment' => null,

//);

URI

Element Query Conditions

Width-based Conditions

Height-based Conditions

Count-based Conditions

Scroll-based Conditions

Aspect-based Conditions

Meta-Selectors

PHP

.htaccess