In this series I will walk you through the code of a site that uses only Ajax and Scriptaculous to handle it’s completely windowed interface. Making an interface like this is not really good design, it’s only done here for the sake of teaching. It is kinda cool though. Especially if you have a big screen.... Read More

In this part we will take a look at how the main content area can change based on user actions. This is basically done in the same way we display menus with the difference that we have to give insert_item() dynamic data.... Read More

Before we begin I want to stress that this is not a newbie tutorial. If the current level is too much for you I recommend these tutorials:
For the Zend Framework
For Smarty... Read More

Background
I’ll make this short so we can get on with the tutorial: The reason I’m making this system is that we use Joomla 1.5 for our CMS related stuff here and Community Builder (A.K.A Joomlapolis) just don’t work very well with 1.5. Alas, for the current project I’m doing we need some basic blog and gallery functionality for each member and as far as I know there is no real replacement for Community Builder. Checking out typo3 alternatives didn’t work out well either. At a quick glance CWT Community didn’t seem to have the features I was looking for, neither did HOI Community. Any Community looked more promising but the alpha status didn’t really excite me.... Read More

Flash Source Movie... Read More

Provided that you have checked my earlier tutorial on how to make instatiable controllers you could now use that functionality to create a widget system with Smarty.... Read More

Update: This application uses the old wxRuby, for a more up to date example see the editor in wxRuby series. However, the RubyScript2Exe parts should still apply as is since that logic is separate from the GUI logic.... Read More

Update: Since writing this I’ve instead started using jQuery for my Ajax needs, you should too, or MooTools maybe. I’ve written a new piece demonstrating how jQuery can be used with ZF.... Read More