There is a 2 fold plan I had when building this website on my schools server.

First I wanted to have a "valid" repository for the work I am doing here.

Second I wanted to be able to express myself about my school life from within the school.

Of course many of the views and projects I am involved in are not neccessairly associate with St. Vincent College but they are all part of my education that I feel this College cares dearly about. In that way I am giving something back by discussing my positive experiences that happen to me on campus. In the hopes it will give a deeper example of what life is like here for people like me to attend. Candid exploration of this instutution has only allowed me to fall in love with it further. This is my method of expressing that love.

On the technical side this website is a little on the lighter end of the things I have been working on. It uses basic PHP to load documents inline from google documents. As I personally find it easier to format and work with text documents within an actual editor. This will be the only text involved in this site that does not load from offsite. Although even this section is inlined from another local webpage thissite.html.

<?php $myFile = "Published Google Docs page to inline"; $fh = fopen($myFile, 'r'); while (!feof($fh)) { $theData = fgets($fh); if ((preg_match("<div id=\"google-view-footer\">",$theData))) {break;} echo $theData; } fclose($fh); ?> Opens PHP Code Declares the URI of the file to be read Declares a file handle from the open file above Loops while the file does not reach end of line passes each line to a variable $theData regular expression to check for footer breaks if it does find that silly code prints the line of data read from the file loop exits closes the file handle Outside of this I created a JS class to handle the expandable div sections I always find JS more fun but this is not a strong example of my skills but it was fun none the less. I do believe that thinking of all operations as objects is a strong way to keep your mind programatically sharp even though there was no need to build these functions into a class.

function ModifyElement() { this.current = ''; this.amount = ''; this.heightOff = ''; this.elementHeight = function(element, amount) { if (element.style) { element.style.height = amount; } } this.toggleElementGrowth = function(element, amount, amountoff) { if (element.style) { if (element.style.height == amount) { element.style.height = amountoff; }else if (element.style.height != amount) { element.style.height = amount; } } } }