Clear Default Input Box Text on Click with jQuery

February 21st, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

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You know those search boxes that say “search here” and you go to click them and the text goes away? It’s a nice little feature and is really simple with jQuery.

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User Registration and Login With CakePHP 1.2.x

February 20th, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

I’m going to create a simple user registration form with a confirm password field!

Features of this implementation:

  • Uses AuthComponent
  • Confirm password field
  • Ensures unique usernames
  • User feedback if any errors occur
  • Remember me feature (cookies)
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CakePHP Cheatsheets

February 19th, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

This is a list of cheatsheets and links for things that I commonly use (and forget the syntax to) in CakePHP.

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Very Simple User Authentication with CakePHP

February 15th, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

I’m working with my Software Engineering II class to build an online survey for United Way. I was left in charge to create a simple way to login and authenticate.

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Great Moments in Food

February 13th, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

This is the most delicious thing I have ever concocted from a frozen pizza.

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User Account Class in PHP 2

February 10th, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

I started up an account class in my previous post, but I left out a way for the user to authenticate! Let’s fix that…

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User Account Class in PHP 1

February 3rd, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

I’m going to describe the class I created to handle signup/login/authentication at happypolack.com.

If you’d like a demo, create an account at Happy Polack :) .

The features in this class are:

  1. Signing up with confirmation e-mail
  2. Logging in/out
  3. Authenticate/differentiate regular user and administrators
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Design Your Site Around a jQuery UI Theme

January 31st, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

I recently gave my personal portfolio an overhaul.

I started with a preset jQueryUI theme hosted by Google and the end results look pretty good!

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Clickable Table Rows with jQuery

January 27th, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

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This is a quick tutorial that will help in a future project that I’m doing, which is a Magic: The Gathering deck building application.

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jQuery Selectors 2

January 26th, 2010 by Phillip Napieralski

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In this tutorial, I’ll be getting just a little bit more advanced with selectors.

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