CakePHP and jQuery auto-complete revisited
CakePHP 2.3 jQuery 1.10.2 jQuery UI 1.10.3 I’ve realized that my old post about jQuery auto-complete and cake is still pretty popular, but hopelessly outdated. Therefore, I figured it would be a good...
View ArticleSpeed things up with a custom-baked JSON view
Yet another gem of brilliance from Mr. jrbasso. In a couple of my previous posts regarding CakePHP and JQuery, I’ve shown some basic strategies on setting up the communication between the client and...
View ArticleHelpful jQuery modals
This post is actually mostly about jQuery (with some cake sprinkles), but why not… Let’s examine a typical situation: We have a Product model, which belongsTo a Category model. Now we need to add some...
View ArticleSolving the country/state problem with CakePHP and jQuery
I’d say that it is a pretty common issue (and maybe not quite “a problem”), where you would have a page with a billing form, which in turn, has a “Country” select as well as a “State” select. Obviously...
View ArticleConvention over Configuration – what's the big deal?
While writing a little about jQuery and CakePHP (part 1 and part 2), which I promise I am not quite done with yet… … another topic slowly entered my brain… Why do we love CakePHP so much? (And why do...
View ArticleJQuery in the CakePHP world (part 2 – is client side code all that great?)
(part 1) Now, how is this an introduction to jQuery + CakePHP?… well, let’s see in a minute. First, I’d like to say that with the advent of frameworks such as jQuery, better browsers, which do a nicer...
View ArticleJQuery autocomplete in CakePHP
Update to this post is here. (New libraries and new techniques are discussed). This is a quick example on how to setup an autocomplete field using JQuery and CakePHP. Let’s assume that we have a...
View ArticleHooray JQuery
I’ve completely abandoned using Prototype/Scriptaculous in favor of JQuery. I simply prefer the way JQuery does things: Simple syntax No more in-line JS Lots of great plug-ins JQuery UI has some very...
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