Markup Tutorials
While I was a Zone Leader for DZone's AJAX, CSS, and PHP Zones, DZone's Rick Ross asked me to contact Jeremy Martin with regard to a hot blog post he created: Easy Multi Select Transfer with jQuery. Both Rick and I were impressed with Jeremy's script and asked him to repost on DZone.
Assign Anchor IDs Using PHP
Last week, I challenged my readers to create a PHP script that finds anchors in an HTML document and assigns an ID to the element IF the element doesn't have an ID already. Jeremy Parrish stepped up to the challenge.
Create HTML Elements Using PHP: html_element Class
I love creating HTML elements using the MooTools JavaScript library. It's easy, fast, and the JavaScript code to create the element is beautiful. That got me thinking — why don't I do this using PHP? When you build as many dynamic CMS-like websites as me, you end up having to manipulate single HTML element attributes with a bunch of if/else logic and the code can start looking ugly.
Facebook Sliders With Mootools and CSS – Now With Image Generation!
A few weeks back, I posted Facebook Sliders With Mootools and CSS, which explain how to create Facebook-style sliders that control the height, width, and opacity of an image:
Post Load Basic View Source
During one of my recent experiments, I used a ton of MooTools functionality to modify the elements on the page. Unfortunately, I kept running into a problem and couldn't figure out the problem. Here's a portion of the MooTools 1.2 code I had:
Popular Websites and XHTML Validation Errors
During my confession session a while back, I mentioned that I wasn't high and mighty when it came to XHTML validation. The customer doesn't care, the website's budget doesn't care, and the Mustache probably doesn't care. I caught some crap for saying this so I've decided to check some popular websites from various genres to see how closely they stick to validation rules with their XHTML. The following is what I found for each homepage.
Guest Blog: Create a Color Palette Using CSS and MooTools 1.2
As you can see from my site's lack of design, I'm about 90% programmer and 10% designer. As someone that's not a designer, I'm really grateful for websites like ColourLovers — websites that provide you palettes of colors that look good together. Let's pretend for a moment that I do have a good design and I want others to know my palette. MooTools 1.2 has made that a reality.
Flashy FAQs Using MooTools Sliders
I often qualify a great website by one that pay attention to detail and makes all of the "little things" seem as though much time was spent on them. Let's face it — FAQs are as boring as they come. That is, until you go the extra mile and use MooTools sliders.
Implementing Basic and Fancy Show/Hide in MooTools 1.2
One of the great parts of MooTools is that the library itself allows for maximum flexibility within its provided classes. You can see evidence of this in the "Class" class' implement method. Using the implement method, you can add your own methods to custom or core classes.
Basic File Uploading Using PHP
I create a lot of websites that allow administrators to upload files to their own website. Since allowing user customization has become more and more important on websites these days, I thought I'd share how easy it is to handle file uploads in PHP.