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RESS Essentials

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RESS Essentials

Overview of this book

RESS is a new methodology in the world of web design and development. It attempts to solve the problems that accompany the RWD (responsive web design) approach to web design. RESS is still in its infancy, but it is growing at an exponential rate. RESS Essentials shows you how to make server-side applications smarter and more aware of a visitor's environment limitations (device, screen size, and browser). This allows you to create faster and more reliable websites. Through this book, you will build a solid base of knowledge on RESS-related technologies, while the step-by-step tutorials will help you to create your own RESS system. This book is an introduction to RESS alchemy and gives you an incentive to build your own RESS lab. It will give you a broad overview of the multiple techniques used to code responsive websites in responsible ways. Beginning with an overview of RWD, you will learn the steps involved in setting up RWD for client-side development. You will then learn how to scale images using client- and server-side technology. By the end of this book, you will have learned about the implementation of RESS application patterns, browser feature detection, and various RESS architectures. RESS Essentials will also teach you how to use jQuery with some RWD design patterns and how to employ REST API for RWD pages.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
RESS Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding photos


These images are generated automatically when necessary, but we are going to allow the user to upload manually cropped images for each of the defined resolutions. To achieve this, we need to dynamically generate the file upload form. We will use the same technique as with the JavaScript code—with the PHP template included within the output buffer. The form template file at app/rest_slim/assets/form_html.php is loaded via the getForm() method into rest_slim_test.php using the following code:

<div id="form_wrapper" class="hidden">
  <?php echo $app->getForm(); ?>
</div>

Parsing the created photo form inside our class gives us the advantage of easy access to all class variables, as seen in the following code:

<h3>Create new photo</h3>
<p id="status"><span id="progress"></span></p>
<form id="landscape" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <label>location</label>
  <textarea id="location" name="location">...