Working with Google’s Language API

March 7, 2009 2 comments

Google translate is used by millions of people every day. Combine this with the easy reporting of language errors/mistakes makes it one of the most comprehensive and accurate online translators. Google provides an easy to use API to access their large language database, we’ll be using that today.

It will consist of two textareas, two dropdowns and one button. It will…

Other jQuery Uses

January 19, 2009 1 comment

We traditionally think that jQuery’s selector engine can only select elements/information off of the document that we are working on. And AJAX’s only use is to process web forms without the page needing to reload. While both of these are common uses, they are not the only uses. In this tutorial I’m going to show you a not-so-mainstream use of…

PHP/jQuery Todo List Part 2

December 8, 2008 4 comments

This is part 2 of a 2 part series on making a Todo List with PHP and enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX

In part 1 of the tutorial, we covered the PHP and MySQL side of things. In this part we will be enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX and manipulation functionality. The to-do list will degrade fine - if the user…

PHP + jQuery Todo List Part 1

December 3, 2008 1 comment

This is part 1 of a 2 part series on making a Todo List with PHP and enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX

In this two part series I’m going to show you how to make a simple to-do list in PHP, and then enhance it using jQuery’s AJAX and manipulation capabilities. This won’t follow any proper coding principles, but will give…

jQuery AJAX Tutorial Pt2

May 13, 2008 5 comments

Heres Part 2 of the jQuery AJAX login tutorial. If you haven’t already, i suggest you read part 1 located here.

We are going to start writing the PHP code to process the form. This is fairly basic stuff, using $_POST to get the values from the form, then checking them against pre-assigned values, if they match, then echo approved, if they…

jQuery AJAX Login Series Pt1

May 10, 2008 2 comments

Heyo. This is going to be the first of 4 tutorials on making a jQuery powered AJAX login system with a PHP backend. The series of tutorials will go like so.

  1. Plan, code the form (This tutorial)
  2. Code the PHP backend, make it work
  3. Code the AJAX, implement it.
  4. Tidy it up, make it look snazzy

Ok then. So we will have a forum with…