MooTools Tutorials
MooTools Plugin: Event.Mock
Those of you who visit this blog often know that I have a certain love for the simple things: simple CSS enhancements, simple PHP scripts, and most importantly, simple JavaScript plugins. One plugin that recently caught my attention was Arieh Glazer Event.Mock plugin. Event.Mock is a tiny MooTools plugin (essentially just a small function; not a MooTools class) that does exactly what it says: provides a Mock event for easy use with Element.fireEvent.
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. One of the widgets I love is Twitter's "Follow" button. Let me show you how you can implement this functionality with three popular JavaScript toolkits: MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo.
Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo III
My love of the JavaScript frameworks knows no bounds. Unfortunately too many developers stick to one framework without taking the time to learn the others. The more frameworks you know, the better a programmer you will be and the more money you'll make. Let me show you how to accomplish a few more tasks using three JavaScript frameworks: MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo.
Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo II
My love of the JavaScript frameworks knows no bounds. Unfortunately too many developers stick to one framework without taking the time to learn the others. The more frameworks you know, the better a programmer you will be and the more money you'll make. Let me show you how to accomplish a few more tasks using three JavaScript frameworks: MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo.
7 MooTools Plugins You Should Use on Every Website II
The advantage of using unobtrusive JavaScript is that you can vastly improve the user experience for website visitors using just a snippet of code. And since the MooTools JavaScript framework’s community is known for creating unique, quality plugins, I’ve compiled a list of plugins you MUST use on every website to take the user experience to the next level.
Implement the Google AJAX Search API
Let's be honest...WordPress' search functionality isn't great. Let's be more honest...no search functionality is better than Google's. Luckily for us, Google provides an awesome method by which we can use their search for our own site: the Google AJAX Search API. Let me show you how to implement this awesome API within your own website!
Build HTML Tables From MySQL Tables with PHP
I was recently completing a project which required that I build a series of HTML tables which would represent all of the tables within a MySQL database. I didn't have anything created but after a few minutes I had exactly what I needed. Hopefully this helps you out!
ServerSide JavaScript with MooTools and NodeJS
This post was authored by Christoph Pojer. To learn more about Christoph, click here.
MooTools Equal Heights Plugin: Equalizer
Keeping equal heights between elements within the same container can be hugely important for the sake of a pretty page. Unfortunately sometimes keeping columns the same height can't be done with CSS — you need a little help from your JavaScript friends. Well...now you're in luck.
MooTools Class Sniffer Bookmarklet
I was recently reviewing a few MooTools-driven websites and one of the questions I wrote down was "Which MooTools Core classes do you use and how many classes have you created?" Then I asked myself if there was a way I could figure that out myself. The end result is a JavaScript bookmarklet that finds all of the MooTools classes defined within the Window object.