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PHP and script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces

By : Sridhar Rao Chivukula
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PHP and script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces

By: Sridhar Rao Chivukula

Overview of this book

script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library that provides dynamic visual effects, user interface controls, and robust AJAX features. It is to client-side what PHP is to server-side ñ powerful, simple, complete fun, and above all, a MUST! As developers, we all dream of building applications that users can instantly fall in love with and get productive. Simple and niche applications are the future of web applications. script.aculo.us when used with PHP as a server-side scripting language, can give us a new way of looking at things and changing the way we work. script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to enhance your web sites and web applications. It provides dynamic visual effects, user interface controls, and robust AJAX features. This book covers all aspects for a developer to learn and master the art of using advanced JavaScript also referred to as 2.0 aspects in PHP web applications. script.aculo.us is an effective and powerful add-on to the Prototype library and when combined with PHP, it can make a lot of difference. The difference every developer dreams of. This book has been written keeping in view every basic step as well as covering the most complex aspects while writing our applications ó from simple effects, to the AJAX way of communicating through systems in applications. It gives you a completely new way of adding interactivity to your web applications. You will learn how sript.aculo.us provides interactivity and beauty to your project so that it engages users and appeals to the masses. Faster, more efficient, and more productive applications are what we are trying to build. Each chapter of this book has been hand-crafted to make sure that you as a developer can learn and master the art of making beautiful applications. The book covers all the various aspects of script.aculo.us with a few real-world clone projects, which will surely help you explore your creative side. The aim of this book is to make you go "WOW"!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
PHP and script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Types of effects


There are various types of effects provided in the script.aculo.us visual library. The Effects.Methods contains them, as well as helper methods which can be used to interact with the DOM elements.

There are six core effects, which are:

  • Effect.Opacity: Affects the translucence of an element.

  • Effect.Scale: Scales any DOM element in terms of width and height. We can use this effect for smooth transition, or for changing the relative size of any element dynamically.

  • Effect.Morph: Changes an element's CSS properties smoothly from whatever CSS properties it is currently having. On the fly you can change the font size, background, width, and much more.

  • Effect.Move: Moves the element around the page.

  • Effect.Highlight: We can use this to highlight any portion of the page.

  • Effect.Multiple: Using this we can club effects for different elements. For example, we can apply the Fade effect to multiple elements, so that using one event all the elements defined will fade away...