Archive for the ‘AJAX/JavaScript’ Category

William’s Blog: A Popurls Clone with PHP, jQuery, Awesomeness

In a new post to his blog William shows you how to create a Popurls clone with the powerful combination of PHP and jQuery. Popurls is an aggregation site with some of the latest news and happenings from all around the web.

Since I have a crazy workload right now, I feel this is the perfect time to write a quick n’ dirty tutorial on how to build your very own Popurls. Impress your friends and/or boss with a nifty, hand made news aggregator. Yes, very buzz word friendly.

He uses the SimplePie library to pull in the information from various feeds including Digg.com, Reddit.com, Wired’s news feed and Engadget. He shows how to use regular expressions to extract information from the feeds (if they’re uncooperative), a bit of PHP to work around potentially empty fields and the full jQuery/HTML/CSS you’ll need to make it look more like this

[AJAX Magazine] Microsoft To Support Actively jQuery Development

Scott Guthrie, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Platform, announced that Microsoft is taking a more active role participating in the open-source, community-driven development of the jQuery JavaScript Library – during his keynote at MIX10 reported Peter Galli; the Open Source Community Manager for Microsoft’s Platform Strategy Group.

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Microsoft will now work in concert with the jQuery JavaScript Library team to accelerate the creation of new features that make creating rich-web applications on any platform faster and easier.

Microsoft is already shipping jQuery with Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2 products. Microsoft contributions to jQuery will be available under jQuery MIT or GPL2 license.


Improve Your jQuery Knowledge with the Source Viewer

The jQuery source viewer is a great tool which allows you to easily access methods and jump around the framework’s 6,000 lines of code. Craig takes a closer look.

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jQuery 1.4 Released

jQuery 1.4 has been released. Craig looks at the new version of the web’s most popular JavaScript framework.

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PHP AJAX Form Validation

Many sites feature web forms to collect information from users. Unfortunately, these forms often provide a poor experience for the user, with predictable results. This article will show you how to make filling out web forms more fun (or at least less painful) for your users with the help of PHP and some AJAX magic.
– One of the most important requirements for PHP web forms is usability; it’s the goal of many web designers to improve the user’s experience. With classic PHP web forms, a user is required to enter information in the form and then press the submit button. The PHP script will then validate the data …

Completing a User-Defined CSS Website with PHP

In the first part, you learned about CSS and some basic tips/techniques for using the slider to display colors. In this part, we will discuss how we are going to write our AJAX and PHP scripts to make our user-defined CSS website.
– If you’d like to see where we’re headed before we get there, you can check out the complete demo.
You can use this CSS/AJAX technique to let users customize your website’s font colors and backgrounds to maximize their user experience. It was said in the first part that if users have the freedom t…

Create a User-Defined CSS Website with PHP

PHP as a server side scripting language can be used to customize CSS. This can make your website more readable and useful to your visitors. In this article, you’ll learn what you can do to let them adjust your site so it looks good to them. This is the first part of a two-part series.
– Consider this example: you are designing a website with a black font color and white background. It seems very nice on your monitor; the problem is your readers. Some computer monitors may display your web page as extremely sharp because of the white background. Depending on the situation, some read…

Build A Better Twitter Chat Client Than Chamillionaire

Tuesday evening, August 4th, the musician Chamillionaire launched a live, first showing video on his website along with a Twitter-based chat client. While the Twitter chat client worked from a data perspective, based on what the code showed it looks like most browsers would crash.
– Chamillionaire, known for his song, quot;Ridin’ Dirty quot;, announced a live event on his website located at http://www.chamillionaire.com/live.html. While traffic spiked, the site appeared to be functioning slowly but fine. However, a clever implementation of a twitter chat client may have ru…

Using Division Equations to Make Web Forms Safer with Ajax

From a web developers point of view, building a mechanism that permits you to protect online forms against attacks by spam bots, malicious automated submissions, and so forth, can be challenging. Developing such an application often requires using a server-side graphic library to generate the so-called noisy images. However, its possible to quickly create a similar mechanism with Ajax, without having to work directly with images generated in the web server. This is the fourth part of a four-part series that explains how to do just that.
– Introduction

Therefore, if youre interested in learning how to build a basic Ajax-driven program that makes your web forms a bit more secure, then in this group of articles youll have at your disposal a comprehensive guide on how to achieve this with minor efforts. Additionally, youll learn how …

Using Integer Multiplication to Protect Web Forms with Ajax

If youre a web developer who builds Ajax-driven applications and wants to learn how to use this technology for creating more secure web forms, then look no further. Welcome to the third part of a series focused on making web forms safer with Ajax. Made up of four comprehensive tutorials, this series explains how to generate different types of challenge strings via Ajax, which can be incorporated into any existing HTML form with the purpose of protecting it against attacks.
– Introduction
Now that you’ve been introduced to the main subject of this series of articles, it’s time to recall the topics we discussed in the last article. In that tutorial I went through the development of a simple Ajax-based application that could dynamically generate a bunch of elementary …