Book for building interactive plugins with jQuery

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Packt is pleased to announce jQuery Plugin Development Beginner's Guide, a new book which helps developers use jQuery beyond basics and deliver highly interactive content to their website viewers. Written by Giulio Bai, this book focuses on the practical aspect of design and development and also covers details of some real-life plugins.

jQuery is an open source software which enables developers to create animations, handle events, develop Ajax applications, create plugins etc. Using these facilities, developers can create powerful and dynamic web pages and strike a right balance between size, feature set and ease of use. Plugin codes are created to extend the functionality such as Ajax helpers, webservices, datagrids, dynamic lists etc.

jQuery Plugin Development Beginner's Guide will give readers a thorough knowledge towards buliding plugins as well as speeding up their processes by designing a standard development pattern. It would also providethem with a comprehensive understanding of the working and optimisation of plugins by implementing time-saving designed patterns.

Book Review: CMS Design Using PHP and jQuery

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The Packt Publishing contacted me and asked if I am interested in writing a review about this book. I said yes and got a e-book straight away. I have read 50% of this book and checked codes. Today I’d like to write some reviews about what I read so far.

This is not a paid work and I will be honest.

The book starts from the most important part of CMS about user management.

Then it goes to core of CMS, pages and templates. Using jQuery and plug-ins for this CMS.

I think the appropriate audience of this book should have some experiences with PHP and jQuery. If you have your own CMS, then the book will give you different approaches and skills. If you don’t know php or jQuery, then you should read those books first.

Chapter 1

In chapter one, the book explains about the cms directory structure and how to name the directory and why, explaining about config file etc.

The author creates a simple database and add a httpd.conf file. He explains well and step by step. It is easy to read. However as I stated it before if you just started writing php or jquery, then I think you may need to google or study further things you don’t know. But if you have some expereince with web development or know a bit about Zend or Linux, then it shouldn’t be a problem. I learnt a couple of things already in this chapter.

He explains well about .htaccess and took some mysteries off about this file for me.

What surprised me first was that the book takes you straight to the core of coding without gibberish.

Typos which I found in code are followings.

Page 18 ‘password ‘=>’cmspass’,

should be ‘password’=>’cmspass’, without space after password. If you take out this space it works. And the supplied code for chapter one does not have this error.

Page.php methods are missing “public static function” and its constructor has unnecessary codes such as return false which constructor will never return.

And public $vars; (or var $var;) is missing at the top.

Book for enhancing your in-house PHP CMS with jQuery

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Packt is pleased to announce CMS DEsign Using PHP and jquery, a new book that describes how to use PHP, MySQL, and jQuery to build an entire CMS from the ground up, complete with plugin architecture, user management, template-driven website design, and an installer. Written by Kae Verens, this book is a step-by-step explanatory tutorial to get your hands dirty in building your own CMS.

PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages, whereas jquery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.

CMS Design Using PHP and jquery helps developers to leverage the power of PHP and jquery by building a core CMS, which can be used for most projects without needing to be changed. They can add custom plugins that can then be tailored to the individual project as well as create their own plugin architecture.

Through this book developers will learn how panels work, and use them to make flexible drag-and-drop layouts with widgets. They will also learn how to create an installer, using virtual machines for the test environment of their CMS. This step-by-step explanatory tutorial would help them enhance their administration forms using jQuery as well as manage users, using e-mail verification, hashes, and captchas.

jQuery wins the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award

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Packt Publishing announce that jQuery has won its Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award category in the 2010 Open Source Awards. The Award is a new category introduced to the Open Source Awards this year, featuring libraries of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications or smoother server-side JavaScript functionalities.

"On behalf of the entire jQuery Team, let me first say thanks to Packt Publishing for this award. I'd also like to give a huge thanks to the community of designers and developers that use jQuery daily and felt the urge to vote for jQuery as their favorite JavaScript library.  We'll use this prize to further the development of the jQuery Project." Said Ralph Whitbeck, jQuery core team member.

“While jQuery hasn't undergone any radical change in the past year, the project has continued to evolve at the same frenetic pace and the 1.4 release included a wide range of small but important improvements.” Added Michael Mahemoff, Google developer advocate, HTML5/JavaScript specialist and one of the judges for the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries category. “jQuery covers all bases as its performance is high priority, it is easy to use, has a huge community, great documentation, and an excellent plugin ecosystem.”

While jQuery occupied the top spot in the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries category, the other two extremely popular finalists Raphaël and Mootools tied and both projects will be awarded the first runner up position.

For detailed results on each category and more information about the Award, please visit: https://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home.

Joomla! Sites with JavaScript and jQuery Book

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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery, a new book that will help readers to enhance their Joomla! sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more. Written by Jose Argudo Blanco, this book will enable readers to create their own Joomla!, jQuery-powered, extensions and enhance their site with third-party features, code-highlighting, Flickr, and more using Joomla! plugins.

Build Responsive User Interfaces for your web site's PHP applications, using jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery plugins

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Packt is pleased to announce jQuery 1.3 with PHP, a new book that help developers enhance their PHP applications by increasing their responsiveness through jQuery and its plugins. Written by Kae Verens, this is the first book in the market that will ease the server-side PHP coder into the client-side world of the popular jQuery JavaScript library.

Announced in January 2006, jQuery has already grown into a fast, concise, JavaScript library that can enhance websites regardless of the developer’s background. For designers, jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing them to dynamically find and change any aspect of a page. For programmers, jQuery offers an open -source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex JavaScript applications.

jQuery 1.3 with PHP will help developers combine client-side jQuery with the server-side PHP to make their applications more efficient and exciting for the client. They can also add exciting user interface features to liven up their PHP applications without having to become a master of client-side JavaScript. They will learn about some of the most popular jQuery plugins and methods through complete examples of PHP and jQuery with clear explanations.