Archive for the ‘JavaScript’ Category

Debug JavaScript in PHP or JSP Pages with Visual Studio 2008


Fresh from my IM, Kirk Allen Evans blog details how to debug javascript for any kind of page in Visual Studio 2008. This has already existed for awhile with the Firebug extension for debugging Javascript in Firefox. But it's nice to have choices. And it's cool if ...

Google Gears for offline browsing


I'm a couple of days behind in the news here (darn vacation days!)... but Google Gears is out and promises to shake up website development as it uses browser extensions to offload data down to the client instead of making continued requests to the server.  Of course the catch is ...

Handy AJAX data structures using JSON, XML, ADODB, PHP, and Mysql


I'm working on a project where I thought a little AJAX magic would help the user interface a bit, so I've been adding that functionality piece by piece. For this web site, we've previously standardized on using the ADODB PHP database abstraction library for all our queries. The particular circumstances ...

Everybody else is doing the Ajax Whois, why not me?


A buddy at work fell in love with the Ajax Whois and wanted a version on his own linux site. I've been playing around with a lot of Ajax stuff lately so I thought I'd give it a go using Ajax (javascript) and PHP. Here's the resulting code. It's ...

PHP Drag & Drop site creator using AJAX is a bust


For the life of me, I’ll never understand why people and companies continue to sell boxed PHP applications. As hokey and corporate-cliché as this sounds, companies should instead be selling relationships. Not software. Especially not boxed PHP software. So, SQL Fusion has created a “Drag and Drop Site ...

Form data validation in PHP and JavaScript


I'm mentoring a few folks at work in web app development, specifically PHP. Today, the subject of form data validation came up when I pointed out to them that their app had none. No matter what data I entered for name, email address, etc., that data ...

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