YUI Based Lightbox – Final

My previous YUI implementation of the lightbox, which was released for beta evaluation, now has nearly gone gold. This page will be devoted for upcoming updates and bug fixes. So if you've found any bugs, feel free to report them in the comment section of this post. Also, I would like to thank many who [...]

A Compilation of YUI Callback

I have been coding JavaScript with YUI for quite a while now. Still, I am consistently confused by various callback functions in YUI. The thing that troubled me the most was the parameters those callback functions take. The API documentation does not provide any information about this. For example, if you go to YAHOO.util.Event, under [...]

The Missing Parameter of jQuery.post

When coding JavaScript that requires a lot of DOM manipulations, jQuery no doubt is my favorite JavaScript framework. Surprisingly, with file size of 26KB (packed distribution), it supports Ajax along with many other handy features. If you've previously used jQuery's Ajax API, you probably noticed that there's a jQuery.getJSON() function call that grabs the server [...]

Easy JSON Encoding/Decoding in PHP

Update(2009-09-19): JSON encoding and decoding is built into PHP since PHP 5.20. You don't need Zend's JSON support if your PHP version is >= 5.20. Please see: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php So you are writing a piece of PHP code to handle some Ajax request and you've just finished coding the business logic. It is time to output some server [...]

Asynchronous File Upload – YUI’s Approach

YUI is a truly amazing framework for those who are writing Ajax applications. Its JavaScript widgets allow programmer to create richly interactive UI components with ease. However, these UI widgets are not very useful unless the end result of the interaction can be saved to the server side. Hence YUI has added Ajax support to [...]