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    DocShare II Releases Today

    The newest version of DocShare was released today.

    This already popular software just got faster to run, easier to use, and with added security.

    Coming soon….Online Live Demo

    • One document, one storage place, multi-user
    • Looks are deceiving…to the user, a window’s explorer but that’s where the similarity ends.
    • One document, multi-level security controls
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PHP and Microsoft Excel

phpexcel logo PHP and Microsoft ExcelI recently had a customer that required a report that could have been generated to HTML or PDF. However, what they really needed was information exported in a specific manner and format from their postgreSQL database for further analysis. HTML and PDF would not have given the flexibility to properly review the data.

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innerHTML doesn’t work with the textarea tag in Firefox

html The textarea tag and innerHTML and Firefox
innerHTML is a common way to return the value of an html tag. I was recently working with an AJAX / JQuery application and all was going well. However, the innerHTML method wasn’t returning anything with a textarea tag. All of the other values were coming through just fine with the identical code.

Somewhere in the recesses of my memory I had recalled running in to this in the past (probably blocked out due to the pain!).

Anyway, a quick look on line and I remembered that innerHTML doesn’t work with Firefox. To return the text in a textarea tag, use the value reference instead.

use->  var myText = document.getElementById(‘myTextArea’).value;

jQuery Selectors

jqueryFun jQuery SelectorsWhat is jQuery? If you haven’t heard of jQuery or had a chance to check it out you really should. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

Using Visual Quickstart Guide’s jQuery book makes things really simple and easy to understand. For those of you who don’t know jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies coding a lot. Because of some of the function in the jQuery library code that used to take up a quarter of the page can be simplified into 1 or 2 simple lines. On top of that there are some other really cool features that are a part of jQuery. (more…)

How To: JQuery Accordion Menu Step By Step

Experience Level: Intermediate
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 How To Make A JQuery Accordion Menu
This is a step by step explanation of the accordion menu using JQuery. It demonstrates how the right side menu of this website was built.

There are 4 parts needed to implement a JQuery drop down menu.


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