I’m still relatively new to PHP and the one thing that continues to trip me up is the use of global variables. I cut my programming teeth many years ago on languages like C and Visual Basic and more recently JavaScript, all of which handle global variables differently to PHP.
Vertical, Horizontal & Diagonal Spry Sliding Panels
I was recently looking to give my photo gallery an overhaul. I’m quite a fan of Adobe’s Spry framework, so I thought I’d give the Sliding Panels widget a try. There are several examples on Adobe’s site showing panels sliding vertically, horizontally and in any direction. The direction is controlled by some CSS and after successfully playing around with vertical and horizontal sliding I couldn’t figure out from the examples how to get the panels to slide in any direction. That is until I realised how the panels are laid out and the importance of one particular CSS declaration.
