The goal of this interface was in essence a combination of the military budgets example and the zooming with overview example. It turned out to be more complicated than just pasting the code from both, anyway below is a screenshot of the result so far.... Read More

If you are new to MODx you might want to check out the newbie MODx tutorial before you continue.

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I’ve begun creating a site for a friend of mine who will sell diving, Asian Diving Vacation (please don’t bitch about the way it looks at this point, it’s a work in progress, the only reason I’m linking to it at this point is because there is also a lot of bitching about demos going on, so here you go demo freaks) . I’m using MODx because it simply rocks for the purpose, we don’t need any strange modules that would require something from the giant repositories of Drupal or Joomla.


There will be a lot of information on the site and I hate drop down menus because they don’t keep state when you browse, a tree view would though. The one I chose is made by Jörn Zaefferer.... Read More

Today I noticed a nice, short example of the Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty stack I’m using. It’s got a lot of niceties from each component in a very small space, perfect for showcasing each and how they can be integrated!... Read More

This tutorial is about mimicking an Excel style interface that hooks into a database through Ajax. Most of the logic that creates the richness of the application is handled with jQuery.

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I recently did a rich interface to handle various configuration settings using jQuery and jQuery UI to be able to drag stuff around to control sorting. There are three possibilities:... Read More

In this article I will describe setting up an interface for writing articles that is reminiscent of Wordpress but much simpler. We will use jQuery and a suitable plugin to do client side validation, we will also implement some jQuery AJAX to make the form more responsive.... Read More

Today I found Chili which is a jQuery plugin. I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time. The ability to highlight code snippets client side is a very appealing thought. No more server side manipulation that might be prone to errors, follow the link to Priyadi’s autoescape plugin below for a more thorough discussion.... Read More

This is a continuation of the scrolling and toggling tutorial. Some of it’s content is discussed here, without much explanation.


We have now introduced sorting a table with the jQuery tablesorter plugin and scrolling the main window upwards to compensate for toggling a div off. In effect, when we toggle the visibility of a div on we scroll down to that div so it ends up slightly below the top of the screen. When we toggle it off we scroll back by the height of the div to get back to somewhere in the vicinity of where we were when the div was toggled on. ... Read More

As you might know I’m currently working on a custom cms/community project and the specs state that each user should have a simple gallery. However, I’m really, really tired of uploading files the traditional way through file inputs. There is for instance no way of telling how the upload is going or preventing too big files before they are already on the server, just to name two problems. To make a long story short, it’s kinda primitive.

So I started looking around for an alternative and quickly realized that currently there are two ways of doing what I wanted:... Read More