This Week in jQuery, vol. 5
Sorry about the unplanned hiatus last week. Not sure how long I’m going to be able to sustain this, but here we go again with another weekly roundup of jQuery news…
jQuery + Server-Side Solutions
A common complaint in the earlier days of jQuery was that there wasn’t enough information on how to integrate jQuery with server-side languages (or frameworks), so it’s nice to see a proliferation of tutorials in this area. Here are a few of the recent ones:
- ColdFusion: Validating Common Email Domain Misspellings using ColdFusion and jQuery. Incorporates the Autocomplete plugin.
- ASP.NET: Walkthrough: full example of using MvcContrib grid with jQuery datatable
- Ruby on Rails: Add jQuery datagrids to your Rails applications
- PHP: PHP Contact Form with JQuery Validation
Plugins
- Eric Garside’s jStore plugin “allows users to access a number of different client-side storage engines through a single, convenient interface.”
- Inspired by James Padolsey’s article Introducing: JSHTML, Ben Nadel put together a jQuery Comments() Plug-in To Access HTML Comments For DOM Templating.
- Horizontal Accordion: Just released 2.0 Alpha version.
- jqPlot now joins the popular Flot plugin as a fully client-side charting solution.
- jCart: a free jQuery/PHP-based shopping cart.
Fun Stuff
Chris Barr used jQuery to create a fun little game, Guessr: Guess the Flickr Tag, which also takes advantage of the jQuery UI ThemeRoller.
Don’t forget to check out This Week in jQuery UI, vol. 6.
@RevFry, I haven’t examined them both closely enough to confirm this, but the author of jqPlot mentions “extensibility” as an advantage.
If you feel you don’t have time to do weekly wrap ups, once in a month is more than enough. appreciate the time you take.
Don’t worry about the $blog.sustainability()
;)
Thank you so much for including my PHP Contact Form with JQuery Validation tutorial.
i found a error on your website ,please to correct.
the error url is: http://docs.jquery.com/UI/API/1.7.1/Dialog
closeOnEscapeType: Boolean Default: true Specifies whether the dialog should close when it has focus and the user presses the esacpe (ESC) key.
escape not “esacpe”,please to correct your error at once… …
i give you another suggestion,your documents should more language,such as chinese … my english very poor ,read that very difficult to me …
Karl– I’ve really enjoyed reading This Week In JQuery and I always look forward to the latest one. Perhaps you could alternate weeks between jquery and jquery-ui, so that each update only needs to happen every 2 weeks.
Andreas, Dan, and Jeoff,
Thanks for the encouragement, and I’m glad you like these posts. I hope I didn’t sound like I was complaining. Jeoff, an alternating, once-every-2-weeks post makes sense to me. We might have to change the titles to “This Fortnight in jQuery,” though. ;)
Eagerly awaiting the next/first volume of This Fortnight in jQuery. :)
Wow! Thanks! Very useful!
Can’t wait to read the tutorials.
Great post.
Here’s a another way you can integrate your jQuery apps with PHP:
http://raxanpdi.com/drag-drop-example.html
Also, this week Amazon.com switched over to jquery.
jQuery is blowing me away! Thanks for a great tool.
Are we going to see any more of ‘This Week in jQuery’?
I have a question, jquery works with linux o unix?
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