Archive for August, 2008

As your forms grow in complexity, you’ll probably find a need to temporarily disable an input – either a button, a text box, or some other element. This is quite easy in HTML – the disabled attribute comes to the rescue. But just how do you style those fields, and convey that they are temporarily disabled?

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Client-side developers always had it easy – libraries such as jQuery and Prototype make finding elements on the page reliable and efficient. In PHP, regular expressions tend to get rather messy, DOM calls can be confusing and verbose, and often the string functions just aren’t enough. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the middle ground – the open source PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser library, which provides jQuery-grade awesomeness for easy screen scraping without messy regular expressions. (more…)