Creating good looking Zend forms
The Zend framework provides a great way to create forms by just using OOP. Each element is an object in the form object that's translated into its HTML element. If you're using this for the first time it can be quite confusing. Adding special attributes can result into errors, or can cause the form to not behave in a way intended. Styling forms in Zend can also be quite cumbersome too. In this post we are going to be using the Zend_Form object and handling styling the traditional away
Part 1. jQuery Basics: Getting acquanted with jQuery
jQuery really is a fantastic framework. You really write less and do more. It also has the largest collection of plugins and add-ons. In this post we are going to be getting started with using jQuery.
Part 2. jQuery Basics: Animations and Events
We are going to be exposing some of the great features that jQuery ships with. We will be exploring animations (when to use them) and events on a basic level in this post.
Part 3. jQuery Basics: Pseudo selectors
Finding elements using jQuery is fairly easy. But there's special technique that it also introduces. With the powers of jQuery you can now get HTML elements using pseudos which is exactly what we will be doing in this tutorial
Part 4. jQuery Basics: Selecting HTML elements using CSS classes
In part 3 we learned how to select HTML elements via pseudos. Now we are going to be manipulating our HTML using CSS classes.
Creating a treeview Part 1. Designing it
We will be creating a treeview from scratch using jQuery (just adding a bit of functionality for expanding and collapsing), and a bit of CSS (in this post)
Creating a treeview Part 2. Reading real directories and implementing lazy loading
In this post we are going to be carrying from the previous example in when we created and designed our treeview. Now we are going to be implementing some server side code using PHP (A bunch of scripts referenced using AJAX) and generating JSON results.
Creating a content slider using jQuery
In this post we are going to be building a content slider from scratch. We will also be creating custom animations in jQuery. There are great (in fact awesome) plugins you can use out there, but the knowledge you get from this tutorial is transferable.
How to build a dialog using CSS and jQuery
Dialogs are good in displaying critical data to the user such as an alert or some mini form that doesn't need a page load. In this post we are going to make a simple dialog using CSS and jQuery
Asynchronously upload file using PHP and HTML5
Uploading files via AJAX has never been easy....well....not until now. With the help of HTML5 we can now upload such files in the background and report data such as progress to the client browser