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Getting Child Categories

I’ve been racking my brain thinking about how to get child categories of a specific category. And I think I’ve just figured it out. Examine all of the other categories in a complete list, and grab all of them that have the current page’s URL at the start. The next word will be the sub-category . Of course, knowing how to split stuff in Smarty is a bit difficult. I was thinking in JavaScript…

It Don’t Hurt • Sheryl Crow • The Globe Sessions ★★½

Talk Like a Pirate Day.

My pirate name is:

Calico James Flint

Often indecisive, you can’t even choose a favorite color. You’re apt to follow wherever the wind blows you, just like Calico Jack Rackham, your namesake. Like the rock flint, you’re hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you’re easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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Cross-browser AJAX

I need a simple wrapper for a Mozilla/Safari and IE compatible XMLHttpRequest(). Perhaps something like (courtesy of Apple):

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    function loadXMLDoc(url,method,readyFunc) {
        req = false;
        if (method) method = "GET";
        // branch for native XMLHttpRequest object
        if(window.XMLHttpRequest) {
            try {
                req = new XMLHttpRequest();
            } catch(e) {
                req = false;
            }
        // branch for IE/Windows ActiveX version
        } else if(window.ActiveXObject) {
            try {
                req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
            } catch(e) {
                try {
                    req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
                } catch(e) {
                    req = false;
                }
            }
        }
        if(req) {
            req.onreadystatechange = readyFunc;
            req.open(method, url, true);
            req.send("");
        }
        return req;
    }