E-mail Newsletter Form with jQuery, AJAX, MySQL and PHP

Download files: newsletter_files.zip see the article

Snazzy jQuery Form Alert Boxes

For a recent client, I wanted to write a script that would alert a user to not leave a field blank. Using jQuery, I wrote a script that animates a small alert box into a position relative to the input box in question. If the user "focuses" on the particular input box, then "blurs" (clicks off of it, or clicks elsewhere) without inputting anything, the alert box will insert itself into the DOM directly above the particular <input> in question alert them that they left it empty. see the article

PHP Popular Tags List

A popular tags list can help your users find articles relating to certain topics without having to guess what a good search input might be. This is the code I created for my own site, which now contains one such list. see the article

JQuery/PHP: Simple Random Text Generation Box

These instructions will show you how to create a div with a field of text in it, and upon clicking a link, will load a JQuery animation, replace the text inside the box, and then load another jquery animation. see the article

How to Talk Like PHP: Part 2

One of the things that tripped me up a lot early on were predefined variables. These variables look like $_POST, $_GET, $_SERVER, $_FILES, ETC., er, I mean "etc." lowercase. They're like the establishment. see the article

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