If you’ve been itching to add more whiz-bang excitement to your Drupal website but felt like you just don’t understand all this Ajax/javascript stuff, then this video is for you! This video builds off of concepts covered in videos such as Theming Basics for Drupal, Advanced Theming for Drupal, Drupal Module Development and Introduction to jQuery. This video ties together these concepts as we delve into Drupal’s javascript and Ajax APIs.
Warning: This video covers some higher-level topics and advanced Drupal alchemy not known to many developers. With a grasp of the concepts contained in this video, we expect that you will be transformed into an unstoppable Drupal wizard. We hope that you will use these powers for good.
jQuery & javascript in Drupal carefully walks you through all of the Drupal-specific javascript conventions that you’ll need to know to begin integrating jQuery scripts into your Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 websites. You’ll get a brief introduction to jQuery and learn how to add javascript code through the theme layer as well as via a module. You’ll also learn how to pass variables from PHP into your javascript files through the Drupal-specific Drupal.settings variable.
We’ve written six example modules in this video and we walk you through each one in order to demonstrate how to integrate jQuery scripts into your Drupal website. This hands-on approach will help you learn how to leverage Drupal’s javascript-related Form API properties, how to create sortable table forms, and how to leverage the AHAH framework in Drupal 6 as well as the powerful Ajax framework in Drupal 7. This video will teach you everything you need to know to start creating fully Ajax-enabled Drupal websites. In this video we also explore the new javascript states system in Drupal 7, which allows you to create dynamic form dependencies and increase the usability of forms in Drupal. Finally, we’ll take a look at some of the ways to keep your jQuery version up to date and some of the other popular javascript-related Drupal contributed modules.
Full chapter listing:
1. Introduction
2. Introduction to jQuery
3. Adding javascript through a theme
4. The Macro Maker demonstration module
5. Adding javascript and variables through a module
6. Drupal.behaviors and Drupal-specific javascript
7. Making tables sortable
8. javascript-related Form API properties
9. Dynamic forms in Drupal 6: AHAH framework
10. Ajax framework in Drupal 7
11. Creating Ajax-enabled links in Drupal 7
12. Form dependencies with the States System
13. javascript-related Drupal Contrib Modules
14. Conclusion
* Example module files included.
More Info:
http://store.lullabot.com/products/jquery-and-javascript-in-drupal
Continue Reading »
"Lullabot jQuery and JavaScript in Drupal-QUASAR" Full Fast Download
In its short history, jQuery has revolutionized front-end web development, making it faster, easier, and more rewarding to write javascript – allowing easier selection and manipulation of HTML elements, and ensuring that scripts work across the ever increasing landscape of browsers and operating systems. jQuery is now the most popular javascript library on the web, powering over 27% of the 10,000 most popular sites.
This video walks the viewer through the essential concepts and syntaxes needed start writing simple-yet-powerful javascript using jQuery. Nate Haug and Jeff Robbins show many hands-on examples demonstrating how to use jQuery’s simple syntax to choose and manipulate HTML elements, traverse the document object model (DOM), and to attach event handlers which can react to user interaction with the page. They also walk through how to construct an AJAX request to pull in data from external HTML, XML, or JSON sources as well as how to create a simple jQuery plug-in.
Learn how liberating and fun jQuery development can be. Give us 3 hours and we’ll get you excited to create clearer, easier-to-use, and more whiz-bangy websites.
Full chapter listing:
1. Introduction
2. What is jQuery?
3. Introduction to Firebug
4. Overview of jQuery Concepts
5. Using jQuery Selectors
6. jQuery Effects & Animations
7. jQuery Events
8. Adding jQuery Scripts
9. DOM Manipulation with jQuery
10. DOM Traversing with jQuery
11. Implementing AJAX with jQuery
12. Using jQuery Plugins
13. Conclusion
More Info:
http://store.lullabot.com/products/introduction-to-jquery
Continue Reading »
"Lullabot Introduction to jQuery-QUASAR" Full Fast Download
¶
Posted 07 May 2010
§
Tutorials
‡
°
Also tagged:
Create real-time, highly interactive apps quickly with the powerful XMPP protocol
XMPP is a robust protocol used for a wide range of applications, including instant messaging, multi-user chat, voice and video conferencing, collaborative spaces, real-time gaming, data synchronization, and search. This book teaches you how to harness the power of XMPP in your own apps and presents you with all the tools you need to build the next generation of apps using XMPP or add new features to your current apps. Featuring the JavaScript language throughout and making use of the jQuery library, the book contains several XMPP apps of increasing complexity that serve as ideal learning tools.
Coverage Includes:
-
Getting to Know XMPP
-
Designing XMPP Applications
-
Saying Hello: The First Application
-
Exploring the XMPP Protocol: A Debugging Console
-
Microblogging in Real Time: An Identica Client
-
Talking with Friends: One-on-One Chat
-
Exploring Services: Service Discovery and Browsing
-
Group Chatting: A Multi-User Chat Client
-
Publishing and Subscribing: A Shared Sketch Pad Introduction
-
Writing with Friends: A Collaborative Text Editor
-
Playing Games: Head to Head Tic-Tac-Toe
-
Getting Attached: Bootstrapping BOSH
-
Deploying XMPP Applications
-
Writing Strophe Plug-ins
More Info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470540710/
Continue Reading »
"Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery" Full Fast Download
The book is a detailed reference guide, and an invaluable resource for answers to all your queries about jQuery. It is intended to be a quick reference to help at times when you need to quickly confirm a feature of the library. This book is for you if you are a web developer who wants a broad, organized view of all that jQuery library has to offer or a quick reference on their desk to refer to for particular details. Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. You should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript,but no knowledge of jQuery is assumed. This is a reference guide, not an introductory title and if you are looking to get started with jQuery 1.3 (or JavaScript libraries in general) then you are looking for the companion title Learning jQuery 1.3.
More Info:
http://www.packtpub.com/jquery-1-4-reference-guide/book
Continue Reading »
"jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide" Full Fast Download
¶
Posted 18 March 2010
§
eBooks
‡
°
Also tagged:
jQuery is one of today’s most popular JavaScript web application development frameworks and libraries. jQuery Recipes can get you started with jQuery quickly and easily, and it will serve as a valuable long-term reference.
- The book begins with small initial problems that developers typically face while working with jQuery, and gradually goes deeper to explore more complex problems.
- The solutions include illustrations and clear, concise explanations of the code. Using this book and jQuery, your web sites will be more dynamic and lively.
What you’ll learn
- How to use the jQuery framework
- The basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and how they apply to jQuery and its functions
- Fundamentals like selectors, the DOM, and event handling with running code recipes
- How to make your web sites more dynamic using rich code templates
- How to apply animation effects to your web sites using jQuery code recipes
- How to develop Ajax applications using jQuery
- How to use jQuery utility functions
- How to extend jQuery with plug-ins and their types
Who is this book for?
The book is meant for the beginners who have a little knowledge of HTML and intend to make dynamic websites. The book will be of great use for developers and professionals who wish to make highly interactive websites with minimum code.
More Info:
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430227095
Continue Reading »
"jQuery Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach" Full Fast Download
¶
Posted 17 March 2010
§
eBooks
‡
°
Also tagged:
Create real-time, highly interactive apps quickly with the powerful XMPP protocol
XMPP is a robust protocol used for a wide range of applications, including instant messaging, multi-user chat, voice and video conferencing, collaborative spaces, real-time gaming, data synchronization, and search. This book teaches you how to harness the power of XMPP in your own apps and presents you with all the tools you need to build the next generation of apps using XMPP or add new features to your current apps. Featuring the JavaScript language throughout and making use of the jQuery library, the book contains several XMPP apps of increasing complexity that serve as ideal learning tools.
- Learn about XMPP’s instant messaging features, such as rosters, presence and subscriptions, and private chats
- Covers XMPP stanzas, stanza errors, and client protocol syntax and semantics
- Discusses service discovery, data forms, and publish-subscribe
- Addresses XMPP programming-related topics such as application design, event handling, and combining existing protocols
- Details the best ways to deploy XMPP-based applications
- Explains how to use Strophe’s plugin system and how to create your own plugins
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Programming-JavaScript-jQuery-Programmer/dp/0470540710/
Continue Reading »
"Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery" Full Fast Download
Build highly interactive web applications with ready-to-use widgets from the jQuery User Interface library
- Organize your interfaces with reusable widgets: accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders, tabs, and more
- Enhance the interactivity of your pages by making elements drag-and-droppable, sortable, selectable, and resizable
- Packed with examples and clear explanations of how to easily design elegant and powerful front-end interfaces for your web applications
- Revised and targeted at jQuery UI 1.7
In Detail Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted suite of official plug-ins for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces with maximum compatibility and stability, and minimum time and effort.
jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and developer-friendly way. With all this, the amount of code that you need to write personally to take a project from conception to completion is drastically reduced.
Specially revised for version 1.7 of jQuery UI, this book has been written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build upon your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced usage in a series of easy-to-follow steps.
In this book, you’ll learn how each component can be initialized in a basic default implementation and then see how easy it is to customize its appearance and configure its behavior to tailor it to the requirements of your application. You’ll look at the configuration options and the methods exposed by each component’s API to see how these can be used to bring out the best of the library.
Events play a key role in any modern web application if it is to meet the expected minimum requirements of interactivity and responsiveness, and each chapter will show you the custom events fired by the component covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon.
What you will learn from this book?
- How the brand-new CSS framework styles each of the library components
- Organizing different sections of related content as tabs and accordions to save space on your page while maximizing its content
- Displaying messages, images, and interactive content like forms using the dialog widget
- Using sliders for volume and color control of your applications by dynamically scrolling left and right, displaying different ranges
- Allowing your site visitors to select dates from the calendar using the date picker widget
- Adding an attractive and effective deterministic progress bar to give visitors essential feedback on how much longer a process has left to complete
- Providing a drag-and-drop mechanism to let users directly rearrange elements around the page
- Making a range of elements of a group selectable and taking collective actions on them
- Creating a page with content boxes that can be sorted into various positions to suit the visitor’s personal preference
- Adding flair to your actions with animation effects
More Info:
http://www.amazon.com/jQuery-UI-1-7-Interface-Library/dp/1847199720/
Continue Reading »
"jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery" Full Fast Download
¶
Posted 22 November 2009
§
eBooks
‡
°
Also tagged:
Enhance your PHP applications by increasing their responsiveness through jQuery and its plugins.
- Combine client-side jQuery with your server-side PHP to make your applications more efficient and exciting for the client
- Learn about some of the most popular jQuery plugins and methods
- Create powerful and responsive user interfaces for your PHP applications
- Complete examples of PHP and jQuery with clear explanations
- No JavaScript expertise or jQuery experience required
In Detail
To make PHP applications that respond quickly, avoid unnecessary page reloads, and provide great user interfaces, often requires complex JavaScript techniques and even then, if you get that far, they might not even work across different browsers! With jQuery, you can use one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, forget about cross-browser issues, and simplify the creation of very powerful and responsive interfaces – all with the minimum of code.
This is the first book in the market that will ease the server-side PHP coder into the client-side world of the popular jQuery JavaScript library.
This book will show you how to use jQuery to enhance your PHP applications, with many examples using jQuery’s user interface library jQuery UI, and other examples using popular jQuery plugins. It will help you to add exciting user interface features to liven up your PHP applications without having to become a master of client-side JavaScript.
This book will teach you how to use jQuery to create some really stunning effects, but without you needing to have in-depth knowledge of how jQuery works. It provides you with everything you need to build practical user interfaces for everything from graphics manipulation to drag-and-drop to data searching, and much more. The book also provides practical demonstrations of PHP and jQuery and explains those examples, rather than starting from how JavaScript works and how it is different from PHP.
By the end of this book, you should be able to take any PHP application you have written, and transform it into a responsive, user-friendly interface, with capabilities you would not have dreamed of being able to achieve, all in just a few lines of JavaScript.
What you will learn from this book?
- Integrate jQuery into your PHP applications
- Add tabs and accordions using the jQuery-UI project to make your pages easier to read
- Validate forms locally and remotely
- Enhance your existing form controls, optimize large select-boxes, build auto-suggest fields for your forms.
- Manipulate images non-destructively
- Manage your files and directories
- Create your own jQuery plugins
- Write a weekly calendar
- Use a drag/drop mechanism to sort lists and create hierarchical menus
- Paginate, order, and search large data sets
More Info:
http://www.amazon.com/jQuery-1-3-PHP-Kae-Verens/dp/1847196985/
Continue Reading »
"jQuery 1.3 with PHP" Full Fast Download
¶
Posted 10 November 2009
§
eBooks
‡
°
Also tagged: PHP
In jQuery Essential Training, Microsoft professional Joe Marini presents the power of the jQuery library, an open-source JavaScript project that greatly simplifies the process of adding advanced functionality to web sites. Joe teaches how to use these new features to build pages that work across browsers with the functionality that today’s users (and clients) are looking for, from complex animation effects to dynamic page formatting. Joe pulls all of this together, showing how the jQuery UI plug-in can expand and streamline the capability of jQuery, and then integrating jQuery design tools into a complete sample web site. Exercise files accompany the course.
Software works on: Mac and Windows.
Released on: 9/1/2009
More Info:
http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=48370
Continue Reading »
"Lynda.com jQuery Essential Training-NoPE" Full Fast Download
