Posts Tagged ‘ jQuery ’

I’ve been tinkering around with CakePHP for the last few weeks out of curiosity. The process has been fun and has made me enjoy PHP much more. After building the application to work the usual way (not spiced up with some Ajax goodness), I decided to add in some Ajax support. Although CakePHP comes with Ajax helpers that will certainly help make development a snap, I wanted use jQuery. Here’s a snippet of my code that I used to add a task.

I love TinyMCE. It’s extremely easy to integrate and best of all, it’s open source and thus free.

Some time ago, something stumped my co-worker and I about TinyMCE. We were working on a blog application that included an HTML editor. Along with the editor, we wanted to give the users a chance to upload pictures with their posting. But looking at the general structure of TinyMCE, we realized that TinyMCE was not built to accommodate multiple users (I might be wrong here, but it’s didn’t seem possible without purchasing MCImageManager). In our application, each user has the ability to upload his own images and should not have access to the rest of the images uploaded by other registered users.

What is jTipster? Remember the times you would like to add notes to a picture, but there were no other ways to do it without firing up Photoshop. The problem with that is the content added to the picture was not easily changed, you needed some Photoshop skills and well, not SEO friendly.

So, what is it again? Well, jTipster allows you to add “markers” to a picture. For each marker added, you can add short or long captions that appear on rollover. See it working here.

So, how do you get it working. Follow the steps below and to get started.

While working on a site today that was built to support multiple languages, I ran into a small issue. Since the site’s buttons were all actually text links (hrefs) made to look like good ol’ regular buttons (easier to do this rather than creating multiple button sets for each language), the default button action code I had working for other sites didn’t work for this particular site.

The first time you write a plugin, however simple it is, a sense of accomplishment takes over. It might last a couple hours, but those hours are precious as walking on the moon. As a person who recently got addicted to jQuery, the library has certainly lived up to its reputation in helping cutting lines of codes. Without further ado, here’s my first jQuery plugin – a stylesheet switcher.

There would be times you would want to offer your users an indication of the current form element they are on. A simple, non intrusive manner for this would be as simple as changing the background of the element using CSS. Users who are using their keyboard to move through the form elements would also benefit from this as this provides a more obvious cursor position.