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Recreating apple widget browser

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:29 am
by aquilai
Hi, i'm a bit of a newbie at this and a friend of mine has asked me to recreate the apple widget browser found at:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/

(you have to scroll down a bit)

using php (and of course his own information), the only way I can think of doing this is to use 'include' but this would result in the page being reloaded every time the user clicked a new catagory, which although not a massive problem lacks the style of the one on the apple website, anyone got any ideas??

cheers

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:59 am
by phice
This is a Javascript-related question... moving :)

Take a look at http://script.aculo.us/ and moo.fx

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:00 pm
by feyd
I believe you are referring to Ajax handling inline replacement and such, or at minimum Javascript switching visibility and such.

The only thing I recommend is making sure it works in some fashion without Javascript enabled. This is a legal/accessibility issue more than anything.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:03 pm
by aquilai
So there's no way to do this sort of thing with php, I know the apple one is done with Javascript I just wondered if it was possible with php?

cheers

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:19 pm
by feyd
aquilai wrote:So there's no way to do this sort of thing with php, I know the apple one is done with Javascript I just wondered if it was possible with php?
PHP has no influence on that end as it's handled by the browser.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:40 pm
by aquilai
Right, nice one thanks guess i'd better pick up the javascript textbook!!

Cheers

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:07 pm
by SwizzCodes
Of course it is possible with php, you just have need to reload the page everytime you select a category.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:33 pm
by phice
You probably shouldn't have agreed to a job that you have no idea how to do ;)