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Update Select Elements On The Fly

Sep 042009

In the previous post,’Create Dynamic Date Selects‘, we ended up with select lists for the Month, Day and Year. In this post, we’ll make these more intuitive by only displaying the correct number of days for a given month/year combination; Continue reading »

Create Dynamic Date Selects

PHP 1 Response »

Sep 032009

If you ever require users to submit a date using an online form, perhaps a birthday or an expiry date, a good way to eliminate spelling mistakes and format the submitted date how you want is to provide drop down ‘select’ elements. Using PHP, we can easily create dynamic select elements for the day, month and year.

Dynamic Copyright Date

PHP 5 Responses »

Aug 212009

&copy; 2009

But let’s be honest, nothing looks worse than a copyright statement when the year is out of date! It gives the impression that you don’t care.

You can easily prevent this by using the php date() function:

&copy; <?php echo date('Y'); ?>

Really simple and one less thing to think about. Leave and forget

Create Your First AJAX Request (Part Two)

Javascript, PHP 3 Responses »

Jul 172009

An example of what you’re creating can be seen here.

The complete script can be downloaded here AjaxRequest (30.91 KB) Create your first AJAX Request

In the first part, we created a function, getRequestObj(), that we can now use to initiate a new XMLHttpRequest object. Continue reading »

Form Validation Pop-Ups

Javascript No Responses »

Jun 062009

If you have required fields in a form, a nice visual clue for the user is to have a message ‘pop up’ if the field hasn’t been filled in. A simple example of what I mean can be seen here.

Open A New Browser Window

Javascript 3 Responses »

May 032009

Although best practice dictates that you shouldn’t force a new browser window on a user, sometimes (perhaps for a PDF file) you really want to. If you’re using a transitional doctype, this isn’t a problem. You’d simply use the ‘target’ attribute and set it to ‘_blank’.