Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Handling Events with jQuery
Chapter 2: Combining PHP and jQuery
Chapter 3: Working with XML Documents
Chapter 4: Working with JSON
Chapter 5: Working with Forms
Chapter 6: Adding Visual Effects to Forms
Chapter 7: Creating Cool Navigation Menus
Chapter 8: Data Binding with PHP and jQuery
Chapter 9: Enhancing your Site with PHP and jQuery
Appendix: Firebug
Index
- Chapter 1: Handling Events with jQuery
- Introduction
- Executing functions when page has loaded
- Binding and unbinding elements
- Adding events to elements that will be created later
- Submitting a form with jQuery
- Checking for missing images
- Creating the select/unselect all checkboxes functionality
- Capturing mouse events
- Creating keyboard shortcuts
- Displaying user selected text
- Dragging elements on a page
- Chapter 2: Combining PHP and jQuery
- Introduction
- Fetching data from PHP using jQuery
- Creating a query string automatically for all form elements
- Detecting an AJAX request in PHP
- Sending data to PHP
- Aborting AJAX requests
- Creating an empty page and loading it in parts
- Handling errors in AJAX requests
- Preventing browser from caching AJAX requests
- Loading JavaScript on demand to reduce page load time
- Chapter 3: Working with XML Documents
- Introduction
- Loading XML from files and strings using SimpleXML
- Accessing elements and attributes using SimpleXML
- Searching elements using XPath
- Reading an XML using DOM extension
- Creating an XML using DOM extension
- Modifying an XML using DOM extension
- Parsing XML with jQuery
- Chapter 4: Working with JSON
- Introduction
- Creating JSON in PHP
- Reading JSON in PHP
- Catching JSON parsing errors
- Accessing data from a JSON in jQuery
- Chapter 5: Working with Forms
- Introduction
- Adding input fields dynamically in a form
- Searching for user-inputted string in a page
- Checking for empty fields using jQuery
- Validating numbers using jQuery
- Validating e-mail and website addresses using regular expressions
- Displaying errors as user types: Performing live validation
- Strengthening validation: validating again in PHP
- Creating a voting system
- Allowing HTML inside text areas and limiting HTML tags that can be used
- Chapter 6: Adding Visual Effects to Forms
- Introduction
- Creating a Tic-Tac-Toe game with effects
- Informing a user while an AJAX request is in progress
- Creating expandable and collapsible boxes (accordion)
- Fading an element after updating it
- Floating box on demand
- Updating items in a shopping cart
- Chapter 7: Creating Cool Navigation Menus
- Introduction
- Creating a basic drop-down menu
- Creating a menu that changes background on mouse-over
- Creating an accordion style menu
- Creating a floating menu
- Creating an interface for tabbed navigation
- Adding more tabs
- Creating a wizard using tabs
- Chapter 8: Data Binding with PHP and jQuery
- Introduction
- Fetching data from a database and displaying it in a table format
- Collecting data from a form and saving to a database
- Filling chained combo boxes that depend upon each other
- Checking username availability from database
- Paginating data for large record sets
- Adding auto-suggest functionality to a textbox
- Creating a tag cloud
- Chapter 9: Enhancing your Site with PHP and jQuery
- Introduction
- Sending cross-domain requests using server proxy
- Making cross-domain requests with jQuery
- Creating an endless scrolling page
- Creating a jQuery plugin
- Displaying RSS feeds with jQuery and PHP
- Appendix: Firebug
- Introduction
- Inspecting elements
- Editing HTML and CSS
- Debugging JavaScript
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