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jQuery 1.3 with PHP

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jQuery 1.3 with PHP

Overview of this book

To make PHP applications that respond quickly, avoid unnecessary page reloads, and provide great user interfaces, often requires complex JavaScript techniques and even then, if you get that far, they might not even work across different browsers! With jQuery, you can use one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, forget about cross-browser issues, and simplify the creation of very powerful and responsive interfaces ñ all with the minimum of code. 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. This book will show you how to use jQuery to enhance your PHP applications, with many examples using jQuery's user interface library jQuery UI, and other examples using popular jQuery plugins. It will help you to add exciting user interface features to liven up your PHP applications without having to become a master of client-side JavaScript. This book will teach you how to use jQuery to create some really stunning effects, but without you needing to have in-depth knowledge of how jQuery works. It provides you with everything you need to build practical user interfaces for everything from graphics manipulation to drag-and-drop to data searching, and much more. The book also provides practical demonstrations of PHP and jQuery and explains those examples, rather than starting from how JavaScript works and how it is different from PHP. By the end of this book, you should be able to take any PHP application you have written, and transform it into a responsive, user-friendly interface, with capabilities you would not have dreamed of being able to achieve, all in just a few lines of JavaScript.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
jQuery 1.3 with PHP
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Editing events


Editing an event is slightly more complex than creating an event. We need to populate the edit form with the values of the event. However, because jquery-week-calendar only records the id, start and end times, and title, the event data does not have any of the extra fields, such as the body field, which are required to fill in the form.

To get around this, we wrap the form generator in an inline function, which is called after the server has been requested to supply all of the event's data.

To expand further on that, when we are asked to show the event editing form, what we need to do is to retrieve the data from the server, and send it to a callback function, which will generate the form and display it.

We will use an inline function in this case, as the code is mostly unique and is only used in this case. So, it makes sense to not create a public function out of it.

As a reminder, an inline function is a function that does not have a name, and is defined as a parameter to a...