Archive for the ‘jQuery’ Category

jQuery .hover change div background-position example

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

example for reference:

$(“#formButtonSubmit“).hover(function(){
$(this).css({
backgroundPosition: ’0px 0px’
});
}, function(){
$(this).css({
backgroundPosition: ’0px 30px’
});
});

Secure HTML form example using PHP htmlentities, passing a token PHP, AJAX submission via jQuery

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

<? php
// form page (index.php): initialize a session so that we can set a unique, random, encrypted value to a user session
session_start();
$token = md5(uniqid(rand(), true));
$_SESSION['token'] = $token;
? >
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<script src=”js/jquery.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”js/jquery.validation.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”js/registerSubmit.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
</head>
<body>
<!– The Form –>
<form id=”topForm” name=”topForm” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”token” id=”token” value=”<? php echo $token; ? >” />
<input name=”emailAddress” id=”emailAddress” value=”Email address” onclick=”if( this.value == ‘Email address’ ){ $(this).val(”); }” onblur=”if( this.value == ”){ $(this).val(‘Email address’); }” />
</form>
</body>
</html>

// The jquery.validation.js class uses a regular expression to stop the process if the email entered isn’t acceptable

;(function($) {
$.validation = {};
$.extend( $.validation, {
email:function(email) {
var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if ( filter.test(email) ) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
})(jQuery);

// The registerSubmit.js submits the entered email via AJAX, returning a success or failure message, to our contactSubmit.php script, which handles the submission of the new email to a database

$(document).ready(function() {

$(“#reg-button”).click(function(){
$(“#topForm”).submit();
});

$(“#topForm”).submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var $form = $( this ),
emailAddress = $form.find( ‘input[name="emailAddress"]‘ ).val(),
token = $form.find( ‘input[name="token"]‘ ).val(),
formaction = $form.attr( ‘action’ );

if($.validation.email(emailAddress)){
$( “#reg-description” ).html (“submitting…”);
$.ajax({
type: “POST”,
url: “contactSubmit.php”,
data: “firstName=” + firstName + “&lastName=” + lastName + “&emailAddress=” + emailAddress + “&token=” + token,
success: function(){
$( “#reg-description” ).html( “Thank you. You have been registered.” );
},
});
}
else{
$( “#emailAddress” ).val (“Please enter a valid email address”);
}
});
});

// contactSubmit.php:  receive the email, check the token, clean the data, pass to a database layer API

<? php
session_start();

set_include_path(‘DBlayerClass’);
require_once(‘EmailContact.php’);

if (isset($_SESSION['token']) && $_POST['token'] == $_SESSION['token']){
if(isset($_POST['emailAddress'])){
$emailAddress = htmlentities($_POST['emailAddress']);
} else { $emailAddress = ”; }

$contact = new EmailContact($emailAddress)

try {
$contact->save();
} catch (Exception $e) {
; // do something
}
//$retrieve = new EmailContact($emailAddress);
//$retrieve->load();
//print_r($retrieve);
//}
? >

Post via jQuery across domains (in this case to a Zend Controller and subsequent view) and display the results

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

the jQuery posting page, in brief:

<document…>
<head>
<script src=”http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.js”></script>
</head>
<body>
<form id=”enewsform” name=”enewsform” action=”http://componentserver/controllername/post” method=”post”>
<input type=”text” name=”email” id=”email” value=”<?php echo $_REQUEST['email']; ?>” />
<a id=”submitsubscribe” title=”Subscribe” href=”javascript:{}” onclick=”return false;”>sign up</a>
</form>
<script src=”http://components.someserver.com/js/jquery.validation.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script>
$(‘#submitsubscribe’).click(function(){
$(“#enewsform”).submit();
});

$(“#enewsform”).submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$( “#result” ).html (“submitting…”);
var $form = $( this ),
term = $form.find( ‘input[name="email"]‘ ).val(),
url = $form.attr( ‘action’ );

if($.validation.email(term)){
$.getJSON(url + “?email=” + term + “&jsoncallback=?”, function(data){
$( “#result” ).html( data['error'] );
if(data['error']== “errormatchingstring”){
$( “#result” ).html( “Seems like it worked” );
}else{ $( “#result” ).html(data['error']); }
});
}
else{ $( “#result” ).html (“Please enter your email address”); }

});
</script>

<div id=”result”></div>

// the component Zend controller in question receives the post, does whatever it does, renders its view, and we access the results from the view (don’t forget to pass data to the view with something like this:
$this-> view-> viewresult = $this-> viewData;)

<? php
echo $_REQUEST['jsoncallback'] . ‘(‘ . json_encode($this-> viewresult) . ‘)’;
? >

jQuery json crossdomain example

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

<script src=”http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.js”></script>

<script>

$(“#enews_signup_form”).submit(function(event) {

// stop form from submitting normally
event.preventDefault();

$( “#result” ).html (“submitting…”);

var $form = $( this ),
term = $form.find( ‘input[name="enews_email"]‘ ).val(),
url = $form.attr( ‘action’ );

$.getJSON(url + “?email=” + term + “&jsoncallback=?”, function(data){
$( “#result” ).html( data['error'] );
});

});

</script>

<? php

echo $_REQUEST['jsoncallback'] . ‘(‘ . json_encode($this-> viewresult) . ‘)’;

?>

jQuery check if image with specific source exists on page

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

$(document).ready(function() {

$(“img”).each(function(){
imgtofind = “http://alexyz.com/images/example.jpg”;
source = $(this).attr(‘src’);
if(source == imgtofind){
alert(source); // or otherwise
}
});

}