Posted by jay on September 28, 2006 under AJAX | 
This is a quick little tip on how to pass more than one Form Element to the Ajax.Updater function in Prototype.
This came about because I wanted to do a form POST and not a GET with several Form fields but the only documentation on the internet explained how to send ONE Form field.
It's very simple but it took me a while to really get it right.
Here is a snippet:
JavaScript:
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var params = 'title='+txtTitle+'&description='+txtDesc+'&link='+txtLink+'';
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new Ajax.Updater('statusMessage','myphppage.php?myparam=save_item, { method:'post', parameters:params,asynchronous:true, onSuccess:handlerSaveChannel });
This code is using the Ajax.Updater to send a POST to a php page with 3 form fields to be processed. As an added tip I am sending my request to a page and I am using a URL Parameter to tell that page which function to run: myparam=save_item.
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Posted by jay on September 18, 2006 under PHP |
This is page contains code snippets, links to tutorials and a list or RSS Parsers for PHP RSS Development.
RSS Parsers
Magpie
SimplePie
lastRSS
PEAR: XML_RSS
FeedCreator.class.php
RSSMix
RSS2Array
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Posted by jay on September 15, 2006 under Web2.0 |
Has anyone else seen this?
Another Web2.0 is closing it's doors.
I am only pointing this out because I was about to write a review of Collaboration services.
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The Rallypoint team is sorry to say we will be shutting down within the next 15 days. This is a decision not easily made because we have grown quite attached to our community of users. Although we are proud to have come this far with the product, our personal obligations do not allow us to continue developing Rallypoint toward our ultimate vision.
This was posted on Sept 13, 2006 at their site.
Read More at Rallypoint.
Posted by jay on under Plugins |
A few days ago noticed that the Tag Suggestion functions in Ultimate Tag Warrior were no longer working. So I spent a few hours this week looking into the issue and came up with an alternative solution. UTW provides two Tag Suggestion options. One is from Yahoo and the other from Tagyu. The Yahoo service stopped working because it requires an AppID which I can only assume has either expired or has exceded is maximum number of requests and the Tagyu service stopped working because it has been shut down by the owner.
Well I really liked the Tag Suggestion service so I decided to either fix it in UTW or find an alternative. I fixed the Tagyu service by replacing it with a similar service from tagthe.net and this is what this document is about. But the fix for I the Yahoo service requires an AppID so by hacking the code (similar to the code below) and using my own Yahoo AppID I got the service running again.
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Posted by jay on September 12, 2006 under PHP, Plugins, Syndication |
This is my first publicy released WordPress Plugin/Widget. This plugin reads a Writely RSS Feed and display the items in a Widget on your sidebar. It's based entirley on the RSS Feed Widget that comes with the WordPress Widgets Control but instead of just displaying the feed items I have modified it to remove the Introduction and Private items.
How It Works:
The Writely RSS Feed Widget will display a list of links of documents from Writely. If a user is either the owner or a collaborator they will see the document in edit mode other wise they will see the document in a read-only view mode.
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Posted by jay on September 8, 2006 under Productivity, Web2.0 |
I recenty decied that I wanted to upgrade my hosting package. The FAQ's recommends that you back EVERYTHING up before applying for the upgrade and that's when I realized that a) I did not have a good back-up sloution and b) I did not have a file storage solution for my back-ups.
Since I work on gotfoo.org from both work and home I did not want to use a local storage solution. I wanted to be able to access a backup from anywhere. This lead me to invsstigate Online File Strorage services in search of a free solution.
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Posted by jay on September 6, 2006 under Plugins, Tagging, Web2.0 |
Tags Tags Tags. I love Tags and I love Tagging. So the Ultimate Tag Warrior is a perfect one-stop-shop for your tagging needs.
When I was writing my post, Wordpress Plugins: Technorati I noticed that I had the UTA plugins in my plugins directory but I wasn't using the plugin. I had UTW there for to support the SEO Plugin which, by the way is also very handy. I think I did tryit out at one point but at the time the concept of tags and tagging was lost on me. But now that I have discovered a new addiction to tags the UTW is the perfect enabler.
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