Merrick Christensen

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Utah iPhone Development

Do you have the next cutting edge idea? Are you ready blow the competition out of the water and change your industry itself? Alright, lets sit back and realize the situation we’re in; You have incredible ideas but have no clue on how to realize them. I have the tools, knowledge and resources to materialize them.

With over a billion downloads and the release of 3.0 on the horizon the iPhone market is not showing any signs of slowing down soon. It’s not too late, take that idea out of the talking phase, contact me and lets push it into action.

My name is Merrick Christensen and I’m a Utah iPhone developer offering custom solutions for genius innovators like you

PHP Form Mailer

This is a PHP form mailer, it does exactly as it’s name implies it sends form data to any given email. The usage is quite simple and the email is a sexy organized HTML format. Essentially all you have to do is change the email you want to send it to. And give your form the action of mailer.php. That’s it it the PHP form mailer will loop through your form data, remove unnecessary defaults like blank fields, x, y, and some other lame things then it will take the name of your input field and use that as a label to the value in the form.

It’s also worth mentioning that it uses the POST method and the processor takes the “_” character as a space between field names so your email will have a formatted, spaced label for each value. For example an input field with a name of “Long_Label_Name” and the value of “Value of text field” would produce something that looks like this:

Long Label Name: Value of text field.

Essentially this is a quick tool to use when you need to send all the data from a form to an email. There are some other customizable variables worth mentioning:

  • $sendto
  • $sendfrom
  • $subjectline
  • $thankyoumessage
  • $errormessage
  • $title
  • $imgurl

All these options require strings for example the $sendto variable would need something like this:

$sendto = "youremail@yoursite.com";

The $imgurl needs a url to an image with 600px width and 200px height. This will go above the contents of the email.

I hope someone finds this code useful. I remember the first time I had a client say, “We need all this form information emailed to me”. At the time I didn’t know a thing about PHP so I smiled and knew I would figure it out. I browsed the web but no one had a plug and play script I could use. They were either a simple key, value loop or some complex novel. So here I am a few years down the road hoping to save someone the headache of a simple form mailer. Also, credit goes to Matt Moeller over at Red Olive for writing the base of this script.

You can download it here.

Quotator – The MooTools Javascript Testimonial Rotator

Like the jQuery Quotator, I am horrible at documentation. Hopefully the plug-ins and classes I write are simple enough to figure out and manipulate. This is sort of a version two of the Quotator. Its an extremely simple and customizable little testimonial rotator.

To explain it; it fades a quote in, then out, then changes the quote and does it all again.

You can see it in action here.
Download a zip here.

Here is the usage:

window.addEvent('domready', function(){
var myQuotes = new Quotator('container');
});

By default it looks for a file called quotes.js which is a simple JSON file that looks something like this:

{"quotes":
[
{
"quote" : "Quote 1",
"author" : "Author 1"
},
{
"quote" : "Quote 2",
"author" : "Author 2"
}
]
}

And so on for as many quotes or testimonials you may need. The options that can set are speed (number), json (JSON file URL), and what quote you want to start from (number).

If you have any feature requests, questions, or issues please drop me a comment and I would love to help you out.

Quotator – The jQuery Javascript Testimonial Rotator

I know its not well documented by any means but as for now here is a link to download the Quotator. Thanks for the support behind the project. Expect a new feature rich more customizable plugin soon. And I’m thinking I should convert it to MooTools or maybe I should just keep developing with jQuery? Let me know. Thanks!

Oh, here is the usage:

$('#container').quotator({
json : "srcfile.js"
});

Download Here

Hello world!

How could I change the original post’s title? That’s like a dis to the almighty Wordpress. If your here you are probably wondering if I am the guy that writes music or maybe I am a developer of cool plugins and classes. Answer is yes I am all those things, I just change my site alot. If your looking for the Quotator I killed it. If you want a new one just let me know and I’ll code something up. If your looking for Angels in The Alleyway lyrics, I killed that too. Drop me a comment and I can get you all these things.