Connecting To A mySQL Database Using PHP

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Connecting to a mySQL database is a very important part of any PHP application. mySQL has become an integral part of many PHP applications since it is also free to use. Connecting to a mySQL database only requires a single function call. <? $resource = mysql_connect( $server, $username, $password ); ?> $resource – The variable… Read more »

Create Your First jQuery Plugin

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Today is a big day. Up until now we have been using other people’s plugins to improve our web applications. Today we will create our own. It will be an incredibly simple plugin, but will build a foundation for creating more advanced plugins. This plugin will require you to look at the following pages: http://www.learnjquerynow.com/lib/addresshide/1.0/addresshide.js… Read more »

Basic Form Validation Using The jQuery Validation Plugin

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Form validation is a very important part of any web application. You have to make sure that your users are going to enter a numerical value when they put data into a quantity field (You don’t want them to enter “one” into a quantity field, unless of course you want to try and handle that… Read more »

jQTouch – Building iPhone Web Applications without the Apple SDK

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Let’s face it. The Apple iPhone is a huge success. It is the smart phone of choice for over ten million people worldwide. Despite the fact that the iPhone comes with the Safari Web Browser that renders the web flawlessly, there is still a very large need for dedicated web based applications for the iPhone…. Read more »

Advanced jQuery Ajax Options

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Yesterday we discussed how you can use jQuery as an Ajax library for your web application. The discussion only covered the most basic options to make the Ajax work. There are many more options available to modify how the Ajax behaves. Today we will discuss those options.