Programmed Under The Influence

Aug 13

Bike Crash (Surprise) Squirrel!!

(Original image from: http://www.rofl.name/)

Nuclear (Surprise) Squirrel!!

(Original image from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/)

Surprise Squirrel!! (at least that’s what I call him)

(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6018173/Squirrel-is-surprise-star-of-holiday-photo.html)

Aug 09

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Run out of options? No problem, click ‘Another Option?’

This jQuery plugin lets you easily create new fields with the click of a button (granted you are okay with using <table>s.) It’s easy to integrate and fairly customizable.

Appendo courtesy of Deep Liquid

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Aug 08

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Aug 07

Posting checkbox values with PHP and jQuery

For some time I had trouble figuring out how to post checkbox results using jQuery’s $.post function after submitting a form. I searched many different sites finding pieces of the a solution that would fit my needs.
Anyway here’s what I got:

1) Let’s create a simple form.

    <form id="my_form" onsubmit="return processForm()">
        1) <input type="checkbox" class="option" name="options[]" value="1" /><br />
        2) <input type="checkbox" class="option" name="options[]" value="2" /><br />
        3) <input type="checkbox" class="option" name="options[]" value="3" /><br />
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
    </form>

2) Create the javascript to handle the form submission.

    function processForm() {
        var options = $('#my_form :input.option');
        var option_array = new Array();
        
        $.each(options, function(index, element) {
            if ($(element).is(':checked')) {
                option_array.push($(element).val());
            }
    
        // Post options to action file
        $.post('/your/path/to/action/file.php', {'options[]': option_array});
        
        return false;
    }

3) Handle the form submission using PHP.

    <?php
        foreach ($_POST['options'] as $option) {
            /* Do whatever you want with your options here. */
        }
        
        // Or you can just print the results to the screen for test purposes
        print_r($_POST);
        exit;
    ?>

Aug 06

jQuery API -

…never code without it.
Courtesy of Remy Sharp

New site on the horizon…

I am almost proud to present my latest site.
I am very close to wrapping it up, but I think it will be another week of perfecting it and making sure all the screws are tightened.