I just finished off a nice interface where an arbitrary amount of nested lists are used to represent a tree. Any item can be dragged and dropped on any other item as a way of moving them and placing them as children beneath another item/branch. The functionality mimics that of any file browser that can display folder structures as a tree.... Read More

I recently made a very simple but functional administrational interface using jQuery and Ajax to avoid having to refresh the page all the time thus simplifying development.... Read More

This tutorial will all be about managing loading data into multiple select lists and then save the selections in the list.... Read More

A demo of the functionality can be found in one of paceville.com’s galleries. Just click the first thumbnail. Update: To see the full images one now has to be registered so the demo is not easily accessible anymore.... Read More

Update: Paceville.com is now online. The functionality of this article can be seen in people’s profiles, for instance here.... Read More

I’m wrapping up the Joomla work here so it’s time to talk a bit about security. There are two main issues, sanitizing GET and POST and making sure people who are not supposed to call certain methods can’t do so. ... Read More

This piece will build on the prior piece, this time we’ll take a look at how we can implement quick and dirty AJAX, using the very same class we went through in the prior tutorial.... Read More

So for the last two days I’ve completed my first RoR application that is actually used by somebody, my SEO colleagues to be more precise, their first wish was a script that would make it much easier to submit links to link directories, that and an article spinner.... Read More

The heart of the problem with making jQuery.post work with the PicoLisp server is simple once found (thanks to Alex for helping me find it). Apache seems to use the Content-Length header to determine the length of the argument sent by XMLHttpRequest.send(), the Pico server doesn’t bother with determining the the length. It looks for a newline at the end instead.... Read More

This stuff can be seen as a continuation of an earlier tutorial integrating external search into a MODx site, i.e. a standalone search logic separate from MODx. This approach is however not limited to any kind of CMS or solution whatsoever, it’s totally agnostic through the use of Ajax. ... Read More