Using mootools classes with jquery in dupal
I like the way you van organise your code with mootools and while working a lot with drupal recently i really liked the straight forward way of writing jquery code. What i dislike at jquery is the way to create plug-ins and at bigger projects the readability of jquery code gets worse. There is a [...]
More advanced mootool tips & trics
Keeto started a more advanced mootools tips & trics collection of articles. “Let me repeat that: this series is for people who already know the basics of MooTools. It’s not my intention to write an introductory series about the framework, since there are already a bunch of awesome people who did just that (see next [...]
Mootools / WordPress plug-ins
Here a nice collection of wordpress plug-ins using the mootools framework.
jQuery vs MooTools, MooTools vs jQuery
This is a must read if you doubt using jquery or mootools or just want a good introduction to javascript… http://jqueryvsmootools.com/
WordPress & mootools JSON requests
Short example doing a JSON request with mootools & wordpress for all categories & posts: The php part: require(‘wp-blog-header.php’); $categories = get_categories(); foreach ($categories as $category){ $posts = get_posts(“category=”.$category->cat_ID); if( $posts ){ foreach( $posts as $post ){ setup_postdata( $post ); $jsonData[$post->ID]['name'] =$post->post_title; $jsonData[$post->ID]['category'] =$category->name; $jsonData[$post->ID]['permalink'] =$post->guid; } } echo json_encode($jsonData); Mootools: var myRequest = new [...]
Reading XML via mootools
Mootools lead developer Valerio Proietti wrote a nice class to read XML into a hash. The class requires mootools 1.2 and will probably get into the next release of mootools. The methods provided: rootFromFile rootFromString rootToHashes nodeToHash hashesToTree hashToElement hashToHTML hashesToHTML transform
Mootools supersize background
The plug-in is not really finished but here a pre release of my first mootools plug-in. It’s based on the CSS of Stu Nicholls It was important that scrolling was still possible and periodical image switching with transitions / without fading to body background. If you not necessarily need scrolling you can also use these [...]