Archive for July, 2009
Okay, so yesterday I was attempting to finish a lovely page where an administrator can edit emails. I wanted to send the form variables in on submit, but since there are hidden forms due to java script displaying each one separately, I wanted the submit to function with AJAX. This worked fine and dandy until [...]
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As I was so merrily going through the Mozilla documentation for creating a plugin here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_an_Extension, I was dumbfounded when I followed the directions, and didn’t see the “Hello, World” in my status bar. Why oh why Windows are you doing this to me? Well, I found that it was of course, by my own [...]
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Posting a tweet couldn’t be any easier! In PHP you would use CURL to accomplish the same thing.
<cfhttp url="http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml" method="post"
resolveurl="yes"
username="#username#"
password="#password#">
<cfhttpparam type="url" name="status" value="My API
Tweet!">
</cfhttp>
What’s going on?
Using the Twitter API documentation located here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0update, you send in your username and password to the API URL. In this case, http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml . After that [...]
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Server side validating fields
As many of us know by now, it is never best to only validate fields with client side code. You must also validate on the server.
As I was writing code today for a multi-page form, I was trying to think of the best way to validate fields. Although the below is verbose and written [...]
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