Links for Web Developers http://www.devclicks.com 2008-03-29T15:45:56+01:00 text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=152 One thing that really annoys me about articles and tutorials on OOP that I have found on the web and in books - they all talk about creating a class called 'shape' with various subclasses for 'square', 'circle', 'triangle' etc. This is of absolutely no use when I want to build a system to deal with real-world objects such as 'customer', 'product' and 'invoice' which have corresponding database tables. This has often led me to believe that OOP is therefore unsuitable for building common-or-garden business systems as it appears to have been designed for nothing but graphical applications. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=151 You may be familiar with MVC, but during actual implementation the borders between the model, view, and controller can easily become fuzzy. This article gives a very clear description from the incoming request to the updated view, and then goes on to include numerous examples. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=150 Vulcan Logic's Script Running Machine, SRM, was first conceived in the autumn of 2000. It is designed to solve some of the problems often encountered within web scripting languages (i.e. PHP) that are a result of the stateless nature of the HTTP protocol. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=149 There are litterally an unlimitted number of ways to toggle an element’s display with JavaScript. Some, more useful than others. Dating back to the late nineties, toggling is perhaps the oldest trick in the book within JavaScript development. However, to this day, it still proves itself useful as hiding/showing elements can improve user interaction (when done tastefully). Anyway, here are seven ways toward achieving just that. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=148 Very Cool class that logs different actions users make in your web application. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=147 One of the complicated things when we are doing a design is to doing it only using divs and not tables. Some of us always use tables. And why? because it’s simple? Maybe using div’s is not so dificult after all. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=146 I’ve just install the last version of PHP6 dev and I’ve decided to test the famous new feature, the PHP Unicode Support. I will not explain new things about PHP6 or Unicode or TextIterator, it’s just my discoveries test on this features. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=145 Most PHP frameworks use some variation of the front controller pattern to centralize common code and logic. There are advantages and disadvantages to this. I am going to ignore those for now. In fact the first part of this series will explore a simple procedural URL routing method that contains many of the disadvantages. In later articles we will build upon this basis and address the disadvantages. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=144 Fading between two images is actually a fairly simple task with MooTools. The first thing you need to do is setup up two DIV tags that are absolutely positioned over one another inside another DIV tag that uses default placement. Then you place your image tags inside each of the absolutely positioned DIV tags. Each of the DIV tags needs to have an id attribute so they can be referenced in your javascript code. text/html http://www.devclicks.com/comments.php?click_id=143 The Ternary Operator is a comparison operator commonly found in C-Style languages including PHP. It can end up saving you a bit of time and lines of code, so I thought I would show you. Here is the Format: ( expr1 ) ? ( expr2 ) : (expr3)