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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Time for some nice links again, as usual most links are from Dzone.... Read More
The blog saga continues, we still don’t have any fancy Wordpress style filtering of the content. You know, creating these nice looking quotes and filtering potentially nasty html and stuff. Sure enough, TinyMCE has some function for allowing only certain tags and discarding others but I haven’t had time to look at that yet, I will though… Fancy filtering is not in the requirements for this project either however. But changing and deleting blog posts are necessary actions though, so is some kind of search for articles. Let’s begin by looking at what’s been added to the desktop menu:... 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
This time we will take a look at the current state of the gallery section.... Read More
Update 01/11/2008: There is now a new Flash only version that works properly with version 10 of the player.... Read More