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![Editable Content Using MooTools 1.2, PHP, and MySQL]()
Editable Content Using MooTools 1.2, PHP, and MySQL
Everybody and their aerobics instructor wants to be able to edit their own website these days. And why wouldn't they? I mean, they have a $500 budget, no HTML/CSS experience, and extraordinary expectations. Enough ranting though. Having a website that allows for...
![Multi-Select Transfers Using MooTools 1.2]()
Multi-Select Transfers Using MooTools 1.2
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...
![Assign Anchor IDs Using PHP]()
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. The PHP The...
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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...
![Facebook Sliders With Mootools and CSS – Now With Image Generation!]()
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: After tinkering around a bit, I modified the script to use PHP to save the resulting...
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![Popular Websites and XHTML Validation Errors]()
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...
![Guest Blog: Create a Color Palette Using CSS and MooTools 1.2]()
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.
![Flashy FAQs Using MooTools Sliders]()
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...
![Implementing Basic and Fancy Show/Hide in MooTools 1.2]()
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...
![Basic File Uploading Using PHP]()
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. The XHTML...
