So here is how you can do it yourself:

For the css I decided to use a class of bubble in the link (See Below). The CSS I included in my default style.css as follows:

.bubble{
text-decoration:none;
color:#000000;
cursor:default;
}

I’m not really a JavaScript coder, I just started learning about it in any kind of detail last week or so. I do remember reading something along the lines of onclick=”someFunction(); return false;” though. Sure enough, just having the “return false;” is enough to start the link from even reloading the page when clicked.

So my link looks like this:

<a href="#" title="Description of Item For Tool Tip" class="bubble" onclick="return false;">Link Text</a>

This in effect makes the text between an <a> & </a>tag appear normal. Ultimately, no matter how you dress it up the browse is always going to see it as a link. When you mouse over it, you may still see a url in your browsers status bar, but clicking it will do nothing and it will appear just like all your other text.

Good luck with your programming endeavor!

I pulled file content from some files and placed it between the CDATA markers. This did not work. I though I had to find some “binary to something” converter. The good news is that you don’t need to find some converter, you use base64_encode, and base64_decode to encode or decode your file content.

For example, let’s assume that you have files in a mysql database. The column should be of “blob”, “longblob”, etc depending on how big of a file you are saving in the database. So here is an example of how to encode a file or other related data into an XML document:

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/xml");
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?".">"; // XML document

$gd = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM contact_pictures WHERE pic_contactid='$contact_id'");
$cgd = mysql_num_rows($gd);
if($cgd > 0){
while($agd = mysql_fetch_array($gd)){
extract($agd); // pic_id pic_contactid pic_title pic_caption pic_content pic_filename pic_filetype
echo "<pictures type=\"".htmlspecialchars($pic_filetype)."\">\n";
echo "  <title>".htmlspecialchars($pic_title)."</title>\n";
echo "  <filename>".htmlspecialchars($pic_filename)."</filename>\n";
echo "  <caption>".htmlspecialchars($pic_caption)."</caption>\n";
echo "  <content><![CDATA[".base64_encode($pic_content)."]]></content>\n";
echo "</pictures>\n\n";
}
}
echo "</profile>\n";
}
?>

If you notice the line:

echo “  <content><![CDATA[".base64_encode($pic_content)."]]></content>\n”;

You can clearly see how to encode file content, weather from a database, file_get_contents, or CURL – They can all work with this the same way.

When you parse your XML Document (import), you will need to base64_decode, probably need to save the file name and/or file type and save it back to a file, or database, etc.

Goodluck!

My first order of business was to add some spunk to an HTML / PHP form. I wanted the value of selected option to place itself into the next <input type=”text”[...] /> tag. I finally figured it out, though it is not quite how I want it, it will suffice for now. I am thinking I might give JQuery / Ajax a go over next and see if they can better assist my needs.

So anyways, I just wanted to share: I’m leaning Javascript.

Hazza!