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I was always amazed that a feature like this wasn't available in HTML 4 (but is in HTML 5). It would be really cool to restrict an input field to only accept numeric characters (or alphabetic), without the need for Javascript. But I digress as I had to use Javascript anyways. Continue reading...

The Controller and HTTP response are now working correctly, so it is time to display the response message to the client. We will achieve this by utilizing jQuery to output our JSON. The plan is to show a success message if the JSON passed or display a list of errors if it has failed. Continue reading...

Now that you have setup the Javascript and view to properly fire off an AJAX call, it's time to process the call within the Controller. We will build and write all the required logic to properly handle an AJAX call and return the response. Continue reading...

So over the years I have written many small code snippets, functions and what have you, and thought it would be a good idea to release them to you guys. I use most of these snippets on my own projects and applications and are great to be re-usable everywhere. Most, if not all the snippets, will deal with PHP and Javascript, however I have thrown in some CakePHP and jQuery ones. Continue reading...

Say you have a list of messages, and on the left of each message is a checkbox. This checkbox is used for a mass deletion or mass insert function here. Now to make it easier on the user, its nice to add a checkbox outside of the list that either checks them all, or dechecks them all. The following function can achieve that effect, using jQuery of course. Continue reading...