jQuery – Multiple draggable elements
This tutorial outlines how to drag multiple elements with jQuery’s draggable. Currently it is possible to drag individual elements, but I wanted to try and get jQuery to drag multiple elements after selection
php etc…: php tutorial – separate your application logic from …
There are many good reasons to separate your programs logic from the presentation code; readability, reusability and the ability to make changes in one part without having to make changes to the other half. Recently there has been a lot of talk (and adoption) of MVC frameworks (heck even MS has a framework for .net now)
jQuery – toggle more / less text
This next tutorial is a nice easy implementation of a more / less toggle on a paragraph with text. This can be used in a variety of ways with a few simple changes e.g.
jQuery – toggle link color and paragraph text
This is a brief tutorial on how to switch link highlight color and display the corresponding text to the selected link using JQuery. I have cut things down to the simplest possible stylings and content, but it can be used in many different situations. The basic idea is having a row of links i.e.
Do we really need another browser?
For those of you that spend a large amount of your day adjusting your styles (and occasionally javascript) to work on a variety of browsers you may be moaning over the thought of IE releasing another browser. It’s great that they are trying to improve things over at Microsoft, but I’d like to point out a few things as to why this could cause more pain than joy. Looking at the stats over at w3schools which gives us a rough indicator of the break down between IE6 and IE7, they both have pretty close market share
Large sized mysql dump
As mentioned previously I have been working recently converting over some old classic asp pages into php. It has also been a company decision for them to continue to run mssql in conjunction with php
Classic ASP.. what a headache
The company I’m working for currently is going through the process of transferring all their old classic asp sites over to php and adding new functionality at the same time. In order to meet deadlines some of the new functionality is being added in classic asp and being converted over at a later date which is not the best way to do things but keeps things moving (please note: I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone as an exercise). One of the biggest troubles I’ve had is getting values out of arrays
The importance of regular expressions – pt 2
Following on from my previous entry on regular expressions, I’d like to go over some of the useful functions that are built in to php for dealing with regular expression. The two most common functions that I think you will come across are preg_match and preg_replace .
Processing XML with php5 and DOM extension
Depending on what you are using php for, parsing XML documents may not be something you do regularly, but it’s something that’s quite useful to know.