Lately I’ve been experimenting with Doctrine on a few projects. It does have some requirements, including the PDO layer of PHP 5.2. Things didn’t work right off the bat on Dreamhost (which I still use for non-critical things), so I opted to build my own php.

[tags]Zend, Zend Search Lucene, Search, Lucene, php, symfony, zsl[/tags]

[tags]Zend, Zend Search Lucene, Search, Lucene, php, symfony, zsl[/tags]

[tags]css, jQuery, layout, javascript, equal, columns, equal columns[/tags]

I’ve seen a few examples of how to equalize column heights using javascript, and none of them seem appealing:

• jquery.equalizecols.js
  • This required a few other libraries, and I wanted more flexibility (e.g. where the column should grow in order to equalize)
• Project 7
  • The Project 7 approach was the most interesting, but the code seemed a bit messy and not so open source friendly (even thought it might have been). It would let you specify which element was to grow inside a column.
• Nifty Corners
  • I had trouble with the syntax, but I liked how it just created a new element out of thin air…

So I wrote my own:

$("#col1, #col2").equalizeCols();

will equalize the columns as expected

$("#col1, #col2").equalizeCols("p,p");

will equalize the columns and add the extra space after the p tag in #col1 or #col2 (whichever is shorter).

Here’s our function:

This requires jQuery of course, and it hasn’t been tested much.

[tags]symfony, yaml, configuration, web debug, debug[/tags] [symfony]: http://symfony-project.com/

[tags]flat, biking[/tags]

[tags]yui, yahoo, css, snippet, textmate, ems, px[/tags]

If you use YUI grid layouts you’ll notice that ems are the preferred units and for good reason. But ems don’t make sense to people like us who want to be super precise down to the pixel… pixels make sense.

So type in a number select it and run this ruby script as a TextMate command (that outputs as a snippet):

You’ll have the proper tab stops to change the newly calculated ems from width to margin-left or margin-right or whatever it is you desire.

[tags]symfony, media temple, fast cgi, anomalies, SNAFU, php, configuration[tags]

I do a lot of YUI grid layouts and I love the nestable grids:

<div class="yui-g$1"> 
	<div class="yui-u first">
		$2
	</div>
	<div class="yui-u">
		$3
	</div>
</div>

There’s a tab stop after yui-g in case you want to use one of the variants (yui-gb, yui-gc, etc).

I’m working on a site that uses two equal width columns… a lot… so this comes in quite handy. So long tables.