benkeen

Ooh… and I should probably expound on the browsers, in case I gave the impression that only NEW new browsers are required. Any of these are fine:

IE 6.0+
Firefox 1.5+
Mozilla 1.7+
Netscape 7+
Safari 2.0+
Opera 9+

(though it’s still a little glitchy here and there in Safari).

Hey Moshu,

Ah! Sorry about that:
https://www.generatedata.com

And I haven’t heard of a non techie yet that needs random data for testing software… But that aside, I’m a web developer: I needed a place to experiment with Ajax, and this struck me as a good one, since the application itself was already heavy in JS and Ajax. Adding that requirement to the site that harboured it seemed a small sin.

All the best –

Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for – thanks!

Thanks very much!

I ended up just hacking the code to add it. Not terribly tidy, but very quick & very easy.
See: https://www.formtools.org

Thanks!

Yes, exactly…! I really need a separate plug-in for this?

Hi HandySolo et al.

I hope this isn’t bad form, but I went and modified the dropdown_cats code to re-sort the select options to indicate hierarchy as we discussed above. For a rather poor example (only one level of category nesting) see:

https://www.benjaminkeen.com/

The code is pretty clean & efficient, builds on the existing code and is backward compatible (defaulting to no nesting). I added two new parameters to allow users to indicate they want to show the hierarchy and specify their choice of nesting mark (defaulting to — – a dash! – like in the WordPress UI).

I’m not sure what the process is, but I can post the code here, on my website or send it to you guys if need be…

Awesome script. Thanks guys!

Looks good though, Brennan!!