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jQuery Plugin: Element Existence

February 24, 2009 in jQuery Plugins

Just a Quick little snippet really.. Over at JqueryForDesigners.com @rem mentioned about checking if an element exists or not, I’ve been doing this for some time using the following snippet: jQuery.fn.exists = function() { return (this.length > 0); }; to use it you can now do this: if ($('#elem').exists()) { /* do something */ } [...]

Zend Framework – Getting Single Components

February 22, 2009 in Zend Framework

Recently i was looking at implementing some caching to recent websites.. 1 to improve load times as well as a possibility to improve the way that my “Framework” works. I had just recently looked over Rob Allen’s (@Akrabat http://akrabat.com/) PHP Nw 08 Conference Talk on “First Steps with Zend Framework”. As I had not been [...]

Enhancing your listings with jQuery and QuickSearch

February 17, 2009 in jQuery Plugins

Ever Wanted to have a way to filter/search a list without having to code extra to the serverside? Well maybe the jquery QuickSearch plugin from rikrikrik.com might be the answer

jQuery image Preloader Plus Callbacks

February 11, 2009 in jQuery Plugins

Hi all, After comments on the previous version by Roberto, I looked into creating callbacks within the code so that it can be used in the way that Roberto had outlined, also I used it as a way to improve my knowledge a little. After a while I got stuck and figured out a potential [...]