In this month’s meeting, we discussed the SpellingPages library as well as the FCKEditor (That’s FredCK Editor). Both of these easy to drop-in libraries could find a place in nearly all of our applications.

SpellingPages was something that my colleague Vincent Miller showed me. We will be using it on our own site management system back at the office. While it is not as “sexy” as a little red-wavy-underline, it certainly does the job better than I could hope for…and it is just near trivial to work with.

The other item we talked about was the FCKEditor…I find myself needing to call it the FredCKEditor or just “f-edit.” It is so nice to see software reach a certainly level of maturity. We began using a version of this tool back in the day that only supported IE. Now look at it! Lots of features, very customizable.

My notes, discussion points, and demos are available here on the demo site.

You can find more info on the [url=http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net/]SpellerPages[/url] site, and the [url=http://www.fckeditor.net/]FCKEditor[/url] site.

Hope you all had a great time. Feel free to add to the comments if there was great discussion after I left.

In continuing with our easy-yet-cool series, we will be showing off a couple of simple (yet jaw dropping) ways to help your users give content to your site. Whether you are developing your own CMS, blog, or just adding a feedback form; you won’t want to miss seeing these tools in action!

You may even be inspired to write that wiki-less-wiki you have always wanted to write.

See you at the Daily Dose!

Well, it took a whole month, but I did slightly re-tool last month’s demo of SACK (the Simple Ajax Toolkit) to work on our test site. Now, it searches against the kcpug.org member’s list. I’ve also added the “setTimeOut()” functionality to make it feel a little more stable. Be sure to check it out in the index page.

Be sure to check out the [url=http://php5.kcpug.org/ajax-fun/memberlookup/]the ajax-driven member list[/url].

With all of the changes in the realm of Asynchronous JavaScript driven development, we took this month to introduce some of the updates and simplifications that have occurred. The presentation is available in a variety of forms:

[url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2006_may/Ajax-revisited.pdf]AJAX Revisited (pdf)[/url]
[url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2006_may/Ajax-revisited.swf]AJAX Revisited (swf)[/url]
[url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2006_may/Ajax-revisited.odp]AJAX Revisited (ODF – Impress)[/url]

As I mentioned this week, I’ve added some new folders to the links area of our site. As you explore and use this technology, please add the links that you find the most useful or interesting.

Read more for other random links I saved while researching this presentation.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/09/fixing-ajax-xmlhttprequest-considered-harmful.html

http://www.json.org/
http://www.json.org/xml.html
http://www.json.org/json.js

http://developer.yahoo.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/common/json.htm

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/examples/kitchensink/

http://www.symfony-project.com/
http://framework.zend.com/

Eric gave us a great introduction to the Eclipse IDE. For those of you looking for a new IDE, certainly give this a spin. Eric was able to even setup the XDebug extension shortly after the presentation.

For more info, be sure to check out [url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2006_mar/eclipse.swf]his presentation[/url].

Available in [url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2006_mar/eclipse.swf]Shockwave Flash[/url] and [url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2006_mar/eclipse.odp]Open Office.org[/url] formats.

Thanks again Eric!!!

We had a nice round-table on security in February. While we used [url=http://safari.oreilly.com/?x=1&mode=section&sortKey=title&sortOrder=asc&view=&xmlid=1-56592-610-2/progphp-CHP-12&k=20&g=&catid=&s=1&b=1&f=1&t=1&c=1&u=1&r=&o=1&n=1&d=1&p=1&a=0&page=0]Chapter 12[/url] of O’Reilly’s [url=http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progphp/index.html]Programming PHP [/url]as a guide, Eric pointed out an [url=http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-security-blunders]article on SitePoint[/url] that you may also find to be very enlightening as well.

March should be even more Fun! Eric has offered to give us a presentation on the Eclipse IDE!! Thank you very much, Eric. Your next month’s coffee is on me!

It’s not quite done, but it will do. Today’s Presentation is a simple intro to [url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2006_jan/simple_xml.swf]SimpleXML[/url]. If you are using PHP 5 and need an easy way to get to your data, be sure and check it out.

While the presentation is lacking, at least I actually have [url=http://php5.kcpug.org/simplexml/]working examples[/url] for you to play with on the site! Be sure and check them out.

[img align=right]http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2005_oct/gradient_pie-200.png[/img]
Want to make cool graphs? Check out today’s presentation [url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2005_oct/image_graph.swf]Using Image_Graph[/url].

Also, be sure to check out some of the great information on the web:

[url=http://pear.veggerby.dk/documentation.php]Documentation[/url]

[url=http://pear.veggerby.dk/samples/index.php]Samples graphs and code[/url]

[url=http://pear.speedpartner.de/talks.php]Stefan Neufeind’s presentation on Image_Graph[/url]

[url=http://pear.php.net/package/Image_Graph]Image_Graph on PEAR[/url]

The topic of WYSIWYG HTML Editors for Linux came up. While it isn’t WYSIWYG, [url=http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html]bluefish[/url] came to mind. We also thought of [url=http://nvu.com/screenshots.html]Nvu[/url], and it certainly looked full-featured.

This discussion lead us into a chat on CSS and web-standards based design. The websites [url=http://www.alistapart.com/]A List Apart[/url] (for info) and [url=http://www.csszengarden.com/]CSS Zend Garden[/url] (for inspiration) both came up. I also had to show off the [url=https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60]Web Developer Toolbar[/url] for Firefox…a web-coder’s best tool.

See you next month!

Check out today’s presentation. Using Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer.

Check out today’s presentation. Using Mail_Mime.