Category: Highlights of the day

You probably know the possibility of adding your own links to the menus. A small disadvantage is that you have to give the target menu as a number (index of the menu). However, the number varies depending on user rights. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the index determined automatically? Here I show a small PHP function for this. Custom Menu Items According to the specs you can add custom nav-links by adding array items to the $navLinks array in hooks/links-navmenu.php. The setting ‘table_group’ => 1 causes the new menu entry to be inserted in the second menu, which is …

For the project I have already mentioned here and here, a barcode scanner is used for various tasks. If the input cursor is not in a search field, but in an input field, then the value of the field is overwritten by the scanned value or appended to the existing value. Sometimes this is on purpose, for example when creating a new record and assigning a Barcode to it. Most of the times overwriting an existing value by scanning a Barcode would cause data loss on save. To avoid this I have implemented a write protection for <input />-fields. When …

I programmed this feature for the same project, which was already briefly described here. It’s about physically sending files and tracking them via QR code. Since this project involves working across multiple facilities, I was looking for a way to notify employees at different locations of changes to a record without interrupting work too much. We all know the so-called “toast” notifications. I use these for this purpose. There are many javascript libraries for this. I decided on this one, which maps what I need for this: Toastr Detail View Suppose we are working on a data set. At the …