I have been working on a project non-stop for 2 weeks to get the final features up and running. But I just couldn’t stop squeezing in some good-to-have features to boost the overall “value” of the product a bit. Here’s a short list of what I thought were really slick features:<\/p>\n
1. Javascript lightbox<\/a>: This one feature can probably single-handedly describe what the Web2.0 movement is all about. The BEST part is, integrating Lokesh Dhakar’s<\/a> code to the project (or ANY project, really) is just a couple of copy and pastes and one line of code change!! That guy is a genius.<\/p>\n 2. Recursive delete<\/a>: This a pretty kick-ass class for recursively deleting whole directory structures even if they are not empty (PHP programming in Unix environments, this is a big deal). My project requires my PHP scripts to interact with physical directories. I thought it’d be a complete waste of my time to write a function\/class to do this if someone else’s already got a solid script. Implementing this just took one line of code.<\/p>\n 3. Directory compress & backup<\/a>: I used this script to work in conjunction with “Recursive delete”. Basically before anyone deletes a whole directory, my PHP application will automatically back it up and nicely tug the compressed file in a safe place. Again, this is a kick ass class because it only takes a copy\/paste and defining of a couple of variables. <\/p>\n 4. Unique ID check via Ajax + PHP: I wrote this myself using an Ajax class I assembled from prior projects. It simply goes to the database and checks if whatever the user ID (or product ID or whatever) already exists. One bug I encountered under Safari was that if<\/p>\n