Tag: ajax
Grabbing only Pictures out of an XML feed
Pulling Images from feeds with Google AJAX Feed API and Regular Expressions
Recently, I have been building a super aggregator and search engine website using various google APIs. The search engine is using the Google search API and most of the rss and xml aggregation is handled using the Google AJAX Feed API. I […]
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New Phokus Light Theme for WordPress
Latest Free WP Theme: Phokus Light
Long time ago I discovered the Phokus Theme for Typo created by John Serris and I was impressed. Actually, the first time I saw the template, it was used by Rico for one of their Javascript examples. Anyways, I like the theme and wanted to make it available […]
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Auto-populating Select Boxes with AJAX and MYSQL
Chained Select Boxes Connected to a Database
I am currently working on feature for a website that requires browsing throught the database with select boxes. Ebay uses select boxes for categorization (see image below) and this is pretty much what I need. Naturally, I browsed the internet for some scripts that would provide such […]
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Solutions for Ajax Pitfalls
Problems and Solutions for Ajax Development
Like anything else, Ajax has some pitfalls that developers should understand. The first issue concerns visual feedback because Ajax requests via XMLHttpRequest do not provide any feedback. To clarify, when someone clicks on a traditional hyperlink, the browser provides feedback indicating that the content of the link is […]
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LightBox, ThickBox, GreyBox
A neat way of displaying images, image galleries, or websites with a JavaScript overlay window.
A couple months ago I found a cool script called LighBox that lets you click on an image thumbnail and see the actual image on the same page in an overlay window with the background page faded out. It worked […]
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