Search Bar Tutorial

Scott has had some trouble with a search bar in his dad’s website, but Brant says that Google has a great one that works very well. You can check it out at [Pit Row Sports]. It looks great and plays well with his CSS. I got it working on my HTML site, but it doesn’t work on my PHP page. Tutorial Go to the the Google [Google Custom Search] page. Make sure you choose the FREE standard edition. This one will have ads. (See...

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Javascript

[MooTools Framework] is a Java Framework. Read more about this in the [cref MooTools] Post. Donnie mentioned a JS Library called [extJS Script]. When he got it, the library was free. He says that it is not now. Cebu has a copy of the last download before the company started charging for it. Also, Scott and I were able to download it at no charge. I haven’t tried to do anything with it yet. Make sure you click on the “Learn...

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Forms

Our first foray into web forms was the development of an email form. Scott made one that sent him an auto-notification. Brant made one that allowed users of his site to send registration information. I created one that allowed users to send an email to the restaurant from the web form. We learned that your host MUST support the correct version of PHP, and picked up some syntax tricks along the way. See the [cref email-form-tutorial]...

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MooTools

Mark began his demo of [MooTools Framework] for us at a recent meeting. He showed us a Slide and a Morph at the last meeting. This information should be enough to get you going in MooTools. Mootools is a compact Java framework that allows easy implementation of some really cool-looking stuff. See the [cref mootools-tutorial] Post for instructions on implementing MooTools.

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AJAX

AJAX is the art of trading data with a web server, and changing parts of a web page, without reloading the whole page. AJAX is not a new programming language, but a new technique for creating better, faster, and more interactive web applications. With AJAX, a JavaScript can communicate directly with the server, with the XMLHttpRequest object. With this object, a JavaScript can trade data with a web server, without reloading the page....

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