Comments on: Record Text Selections Using MooTools or jQuery AJAX

By: jai

jai — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:54:33 +0000

nice sharing good work keep it on

By: rekvizit

rekvizit — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:42:03 +0000

Thanks a lot! But I’d rather fire the request on Ctrl+C keydown.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:23:22 +0000

Hey I finally found your script after looking around forever or finding the right keywords to search for. Besides saving the text into a database, is there also some way to save the highlighted text also because I am building a project with a critique system that saves the highlighted words or selection. So that when the critique is pulled up it will show the previously highlighted words and their comments.

If you happen to know of something or what keywords i can try to find this then let me know.

Thanks.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:41:54 +0000

hey david this is a great script i have been looking for a way to store selected text you see im building an in-place editor with jquery
so after implementing your script to my project i noticed some strange behaviour
when there is more one same words only the first is getting stored

http://hostmyfiles.gr/newsletter/ajax-selection-copy.php.htm

e.g. try selecting the last “you”

is there a workaround ?
am i doing something wrong ?

thanks in advance
alex

By: KG

KG — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:27:34 +0000

Need help, i want write a code that does what you have done on this page, when i select a text i get a image that says “Click here to learn more about this term” can you please guide me with a code sample

By: Alex Glover

Alex Glover — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:37:41 +0000

The only problem I can see with this, is that I select text when I am reading. It is a bad habit of mine… so pretty much any article I would read would have multiple selections.

By: nulll

nulll — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:18:29 +0000

Great post! Thanks you gave me a great idea for a UI I must do… grazie!

By: Anthrax

Anthrax — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:14:38 +0000

Wow you certainly have a great site here and also nice script.

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:33:02 +0000

@Aleks: Thank you sir!

By: Travis Pulley

Travis Pulley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:12:06 +0000

Hey David – I just found your site a couple months ago and have been reading it frequently ever since. I just wanted to comment on your use of mysql_escape_string() there: that function is deprecated in 5.3 and removed in php 6 along with a big note saying that relying on it is highly discouraged.

The proper one to use is mysql_real_escape_string() or my favorite, binding variables with the PDO interface.

Thanks for making such a good site!