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 [...]
Regular e-commerce shopping carts work fine if the functionality of the store site is limited to listing products, allowing customers to purchase them, accepting credit card payments, and all of the other e-commerce features offered by these shopping cart solutions. But what if you also want to support collaborative editing of content, community forums, and other capabilities that could help increase traffic to your site, but are usually only found in content management systems (CMSs)?
I find myself constantly bombared with questions from students and co-workers I’ve introduced to the Zend Framework regarding how the different components can come together to form a basic application. I’ve searched, I have found, I have emailed great tutorials, but still the most common questions are posed “What’s should I include in index.php?”, “Should I use Zend_Db_Table?”, “And what about Zend_Form?”
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 [...]
