If you’re looking to add some pizzazz to your PHP application, look no further—Adobe’s Flex is here to give your interface some polish. In this article Lennart Steinke shows us how to make a Flex widget with a PHP back end. Read carefully, because there’s a quiz at the end: ...
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Written by Gertjan on May 12th, 2009
Written by Gertjan on April 21st, 2009
This tutorial will show you how to make a very simple feature which will help your users make more secure passwords, in registration forms. After the user types their password, this script will make a request to a PHP page, which will check the password for lowercase letters, uppercase letters, ...
Written by Gertjan on March 18th, 2009
To make a map as engaging as possible, there needs to be smooth animations and crisp graphics. Traditionally such a map would require the use of Flash. Joel Sutherland tried to avoid Flash whenever possible, so he began to consider how the map could be accomplished in jQuery.
There ...
Written by Gertjan on February 16th, 2009
This tutorial covers the essentials of separating your design from your content and adding an editor to allow the site owner to make edits from any location. This tutorial is geared towards PHP sites, but the techniques involved can be translated to ASP, Perl-CGI and other languages.
Written by Gertjan on February 11th, 2009
One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we're going to make an AJAX powered shopping ...
Written by Gertjan on February 7th, 2009
JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules ...
Written by Gertjan on February 5th, 2009
Take a look at the following 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know, you might learn something from it.
There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web ...
Written by Gertjan on February 3rd, 2009
Coda is a new web development tool for the Mac - and it’s popular amongst designers and developers. Now, we can have a fancy popup bubble tooltips with jQuery. Remy Sharp from jQueryforDesigners has showed us how to re-create their popup bubble shown when you mouse ...
Written by Gertjan on February 3rd, 2009
jQuery is awesome. Jon Hobbs-Smith has been using it for about a year now The longer he uses it, the more he finds out about it’s inner workings.
He thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques he has learned over the ...
Written by Gertjan on February 3rd, 2009
Accessible News Slider is a JavaScript plugin built for the jQuery library. The plugin does not use color as a primary indicator of a change in state for the slider. Instead, the “back” and “next” navigation is either visible or hidden. There is also an indicator that ...