Moodle JavaScript cookbook : over 50 recipes for making your Moodle system more dynamic and responsive with JavaScript / Alastair Hole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hole, Alastair.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moodle.

Web site development.

Java (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Olton, Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over 50 recipes for making your Moodle system more dynamic and responsive with JavaScript

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Combining Moodle and JavaScript; Introduction; Creating a new Moodle PHP page; Loading a JavaScript file; Loading a JavaScript file in ; Generating a JavaScript function call; from PHP; Passing variables from PHP to JavaScript; Ensuring compliance with XHTML Strict; Retrieving language strings from Moodle; Chapter 2: Moodle and Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI); Introduction; Initializing the YUI 3 library; Loading additional YUI modules

Loading YUI 2 modules from YUI 3Attaching basic event handlers; Attaching advanced DOM event handlers; Implementing event delegation; Debugging with the YUI console; Chapter 3: Moodle Forms Validation; Introduction; Adding a required field; Adding a field with a maximum length; Adding a field with a minimum length; Adding a field length within in a specified range; Adding a valid e-mail address field; Adding custom validation with a Regular Expression; Adding a field that accepts only alphabetic characters; Adding a field that accepts only; Adding a field that accepts only numeric characters

Rejecting punctuation charactersRejecting input without a leading zero; Comparing with another field; Adding a custom JavaScript validation; Chapter 4: Manipulating Data with YUI 3; Introduction; Using IO to request a URI; Using IO's alternative transport method for; Using PHP as a proxy to load data from an; Parsing XML with DataSource; Parsing JSON with DataSource; Parsing CSV data with DataSource; Retrieving data from a Moodle 2.0; Chapter 5: Working with Data Tables; Introduction; Initializing a YUI DataSource; Displaying data; Basic column sorting; Adding paging; Enabling scrolling

Enabling editingChapter 6: Enhancing Page Elements; Introduction; Adding a text box with auto-complete; Adding a combo box with auto-complete; Displaying auto-updating data; Enabling resizable elements; Adding custom tooltips; Adding custom button controls; Chapter 7: Advanced Layout Techniques; Introduction; Adding a fly-out navigation menu; Adding a drop-down navigation menu; Displaying a tree-view navigation menu; Adding a tabbed content control; Displaying content in a modal window; Chapter 8: Animating Components; Introduction; Fading in an element; Fading out an element

Scrolling an elementResizing an element; Animating with easing; Moving an element along a straight path; Moving an element along a curved path; Changing an element's color; Sequencing multiple animations; Chapter 9: Integrating External Libraries; Introduction; Adding the jQuery framework; Adding the MooTools framework; Adding the Dojo framework; Adding the Prototype framework; Adding the script.aculo.us add-on to Prototype; Adding image enlargement with Lightbox 2; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613376633

9781283376631

1283376636

9781849511919

1849511918

OCLC:

797916624