Posts in the "Javascript" Category

  • Here’s a cool extension for Firefox which gives you a quick look at the javascripts which are linked within the HTML page. No more hunting for JS includes in the HTML source ! “All browsers include a “View Source” option, but none of them offer the ability to view the source code of external files. [...]

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  • In the midst of all the wonderful AJAX libraries in the wild, many today still don’t understand the underlying technologies of AJAX that make it so powerful. In this article php|architect’s publisher Marco Tabini covers JSON, the magic format that makes serializing data between Javascript and other languages (often server-side) a breeze. Simplicity, velocity and [...]

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  • Here’s a JavaScript function that serializes a JavaScript array into a form that PHP can later unserialize: function js_array_to_php_array (a) // This converts a javascript array to a string in PHP serialized format. // This is useful for passing arrays to PHP. On the PHP side you can // unserialize this string from a cookie [...]

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  • Here’s a cool set of Javascript Widgets, unfortunately the library is not free, but a good place to see what Javascript can actually acomplish on the client side. ActiveWidgets is a powerful javascript component library which makes web application development (especially AJAX-style apps) a lot easier and more productive. ActiveWidgets provides you with a set [...]

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  • Here’s a cool piece of Javascript code which allows you to overlay an image zoom over the current page, without having to open a pop-up window to show the zoomed image. “Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all [...]

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  • Various implementations of Drag & Drop sortable lists using JS and CSS. “In Web applications I’ve seen numerous — and personally implemented a few — ways to rearrange items in a list. All of those were indirect interactions typically involving something like up/down arrows next to each item. Then I came across Simon Cozens’ example [...]

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  • Another cool site which allows you to look up syntax in PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS. Link: Quick Lookup [tags]reference, lookup, syntax, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS[/tags]

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  • Here’s a two part article from IBM on how to call SOAP services using Ajax. “Invoking SOAP Web services from within a Web browser can be a tricky exercise, particularly because the most popular Web browsers each handle generating and processing of XML in slightly different ways. There are few standard APIs or capabilities for [...]

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  • Here’s a cool plugin for Firefox which allows you to debug Ajax code. FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter. Other fun features: * XMLHttpRequest Spy – Ever wonder what all them [...]

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  • Here’s a cool way to check which portions of your pages are being clicked by viewers. The author of this article has used Javascript to capture the mouse clicks on the screen and save the location to the database using Ajax. “One of the more interesting aspects of Ajax is the ability to track a [...]

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