Hello Darcy, Good news! All your tasks are easily accomplishable with jQuery!
> Type n' List Check out the plugin list for the autocomplete plugins, such as the popular Jorn's Autocomplete Plugin: http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/ > Dynamo-List: Use jQuery core functions: Call the AJAX function to check for a list update, and if changed, add new item and remove old one: $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "some.php", data: "name=John&location=Boston", ifModified: true, success: function(li_data){ $('#linklistdiv').prepend('<li class="hidden">'+li_data+'</ li>') .find(':first-child').show().parent().find(':last- child').hide(500).remove(); } }); > Dynamo-Check'em: There is a long list of Form plugins in the Plugin DB: http://jquery.com/plugins/project/Plugins/category/20 > Expando-Show: Too many ways to answer this one. Off the top of my head: (Loads description from PHP backend based on ANCHOR tag's REL attribute) $('a.list').click( function() { $('div.description').load('descriptioner.php?' + $ (this).attr('rel'); }); > Scroll'm-Rollem: A combination of plugins. Similar to your 'Dynamo-List' with scrolling and timers, probably pretty easy. The best place to start might be with http://learningjquery.com, once you have a good grasp of jQuery these answers will come easily to you. HTH Charles doublerebel.com On Nov 19, 5:41 am, TunaSandwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I just hopped on and I'm working on the following functionality so if > there are any examples or tutorials that do anything like this I'd > love to hear about them. I realize I will eventually figure all this > out but if anyone knows of any working models, examples that are close > to what I want or a list of what methods to study would be greatly > appreciated because it would speed things up. (And that's what we're > all here for right? �� ) > > Type 'n List: > I would like to type into a box. A list of links would appear just > below the box that will have been retreived from the database using > AJAX. Ideally there would be a timer. The user starts typing and as > soon as they stop typing for say 900ms, then the links would be > retrieved from the database. If the user starts typing again, then > again the box isn't refreshed till they stop typing for 900ms. I have > done this often with Visual Basic or FoxPro and the trick there was to > have a timer that you reset whenever the user types. The logic for the > database refresh is in the timer event so it doesn't fire unless the > timer fires. I did this once in plain JavaScript and I used the > clearTimeout and setTimeout functions. > > Dynamo-List: > A list of links is inserted in a DIV. The list is refresed by the > server every few seconds. When new items appear, they are inserted > rather than having the whole list refresh. I have seen the hide(500) > method and it would be nice is items appeared and disappeared in the > list using a similar effect. > > Dynamo-Check'em: > I have a list of a lot of check boxes so what I'd like to do is have a > text box at the top of the list. When the user types in the text box, > then the list of check boxes is refined by what the user types (based > on the name of the check boxes stored in a database). The user can > check the boxes. Once checked they always remain in the list > regardless of weather or not they meet they criteria. To make them > disappear, the user has to uncheck them. The reason they stay visible > once checked is so that the user can see which ones are checked > regardless of what's in the text box. For this control, the timer > pattern in the Dynamo-List above isn't as important because the number > of check boxes will not be very lart. Perhaps a thousand at the outer > limit. The boxes the user has checked off should always be reflected > in the database. > > Expando-Show: > In a given list of items (anchor tags), I'd like to be able to hide > and show the description and other fields that go with each item. This > needs to be done two ways. One where the data is just hidden and shown > and the other where it is disposed of and loaded from the database as > required in real time. > > Scroll'm-Rollem: > Given say 100 items in a database, I'd like to show about 5 of them. > Every few seconds, I'd like to hide the bottom one and thin insert a > new one at the top. So it's like a scrolling list that runs on a > timer. When a user is hovering an item, we don't want to make it > disappear. I would like scroll-up and scroll-down links as well so > that the user can manually sroll the list. > > I'm using PHP and MySQL (I realize it doesn't matter what's at the > back end as long as the back end returns the same results). 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