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
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This is a quick note, not really a tutorial since this stuff is really trivial to setup. I use the jQuery datePicker plugin by Kelvin Luck.... Read More
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My Wordpress stats plugin stopped tracking clicks on external links the other day. I have no idea why, all the rest is working correctly. What to do? With Google Analytics it’s possible to manually track clicks by adding an onClick attribute in the anchor tag. As if we would do such a thing when there is jQuery…... Read More
The other day I had to figure out how to load a shockwave into a wordpress post, I decided to do it with jQuery jFlash. I always edit in HTML mode so I could just paste the following in my article:... Read More
Update: There is now a real world example called Shortening multiple URLs with jQuery, PHP, picolisp and bit.ly, you might want to check it out when you’re done here. It uses jQuery JSON extensively. Another one is Multiple select lists with jQuery and JSON.... Read More
Yesterday I had to figure out a way to make an extendable banner in Flash that when extended covers the content. The main idea with the approach I took is to load the shockwave in a div tag that is positioned above the content and have a movieclip in the shockwave for instance move down when the mouse is positioned over it.... Read More