6 Reasons To Use JavaScript Libraries & Frameworks
I've seen many articles around the internet from JavaScript fundamentalists that advocate writing your own JavaScript code instead of using JavaScript frameworks like MooTools, Prototype / Scriptaculous,jQuery, MochiKit, YUI Library, and Dojo Toolkit, and I just cannot agree with their reasons for not using these spectacular frameworks.
Color Palette Generator Using jQuery
As I continue to learn jQuery, I think it's important that I begin by porting over scripts I've created using MooTools. One of those scripts is my Color Palette Generator script, which debuted on Eric Wendelin's blog. For those of you that missed it, my script analyzes all of the colors on the page (minus images) and builds a palette of colors. Here it is in some jQuery goodness.
jQuery UI DatePicker: Disable Specified Days
One project I'm currently working on requires jQuery. The project also features a datepicker for requesting a visit to their location. jQuery UI's DatePicker plugin was the natural choice and it does a really nice job. One challenge I encountered was the need to prevent specific days from being picked. Here's the jQuery JavaScript I used to accomplish that.
Load JSON data with jQuery, PHP and MySQL
This post shows how to populate a select box based on the value of the another, by getting JSON data with jQuery from a PHP script that gets the data from a MySQL database.
Create a Twitter AJAX Button with MooTools, jQuery, or Dojo
There's nothing like a subtle, slick website widget that effectively uses CSS and JavaScript to enhance the user experience. Of course widgets like that take many hours to perfect, but it doesn't take long for that effort to be rewarded with above-average user retention and buzz.
Expand-collapse toggle panel (div) using jquery
In this post, I’ll show you how easy it is to show expandable and collapsible toggle panel using jQuery. When you click on the heading, the content gets displayed by sliding and when you again click on the heading again, it gets collapsed.
Sleek and Smooth animated menu using jQuery
Today, I’m going to show you something interesting with jQuery. Yesterday I was thinking something to post something programming related stuff in blog after long time and I came across a website, whose menu impressed me a lot. But checking it in a while, I found it it was built using mootools.
Prevent Your CSS and JavaScript Files From Being Cached
Some websites use highly volatile, oft-changing CSS and JavaScript files. In the case of these files, it's important that the developer prevent browsers from caching them. How do we do that? By using a phantom querystring, of course. We'll use PHP to tack the current time onto the file reference.
Absolute path and Relative path file inclusion in PHP
I think you guyz must be aware of absolute path and relative path in PHP. If you do not know anything about it then let me explain you about absolute path and relative path in the server with the example using include() function of PHP. You can see the example below, I’ve included the same files in PHP but the same file is included in two different manner.
Password Encryption and Decryption Technique in PHP
I’ve noticed that many of my friends are storing password in database without encrypting them. This is really a bad technique because if somebody who has access of the database can easily know the password of the particular person.