Using Prototypes Ajax.InPlaceEditor To Edit Live Data

Posted by jay on December 20, 2006 under AJAX | Read the First Comment

This is the Uber-Web 2.0 function of the Year, In Place Editing. This function is mostly associated with Ruby and other ‘fluffy’ web apps but once you figure out how easy it is to add to an app you’ll be amazed.

In this short tutorial I will show you how to add InPlaceEditing to an Unordered List.

This tutorial is built using the Script.aculo.us Library and PHP5.

Most of the examples I found are for Ruby but I did find one other that helped me. Even though this topic has been covered I feel it is my duty to help spread the knowledge.
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Using phpFlickr and YUI to Create a Ajax Enabled Flickr Slideshow

Posted by jay on under AJAX, PHP | Be the First to Comment

This is an update to this post with the change being that I swapped out Lightbox JS (Scriptaculous/Prototype) in place of the Yahoo! User Interface Library.

The result is a minor performance increase using the YUI over Prototype.

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