How can I get the images outside the table? - php

I have a small positioning problem with html and php. I've made a calendar for a school project. Going back and further in time works now! But there is just one problem left: I've used images as control buttons to go back and forth in time with the calendar. It works fine for me, but using my friends laptop, the buttons to control the calendar(going back and forth in time) are IN the table, I think because he uses a different resolution. How can I prevent this? That the buttons are always outside the calendar, no matter the resolution someone uses? Help me out please! Thanks a lot!

I would suggest you to add one extra table row, split it into half and put those buttons inside it. It will be a much cleaner solution than setting a pixel offsets.
There are also some other solutions but this is the easiest one.

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PHP/ajax table and Google results

A couple years ago I had a client with a limited budget and a short deadline who wanted a sortable searchable table of their parts inventory online - at the time they had only an excel spreadsheet. I created a database, then I just used Script Artist (because I had it) to do the front end. It all works great and he's been happy with it, except now we'd like to make sure that Google can actually find all 17,000+ parts they have available and not just the first 25.
The page where the inventory is located is just www.thesite.com/inventory.php and the url remains the same no matter what page you're on.
I've been looking around at different options, using pushState vs html snapshots, and I'm not sure what would be the best option or if I can even do anything with the current Script Artist setup or if I should just pitch the whole thing. I'd really rather not have to start over since he still doesn't have much of a budget, so if anyone could give me any input that would be helpful. Thanks.

Separate a table in different tabs (HTML, PHP, JavaScript, etc)

Let me start off by saying that this is my first time working with PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and JQuery, so my experience is fairly lacking.
I am helping to build a Web Order Processor, which will display orders, dates, customers, and status. I am pulling orders from our database, and displaying them in a table. the Order Processor is being built in PHP.
Now, I've been asked to separate the table into different tabs, which will be labeled after the possible order statuses we have. Sort of like the tabs at the top of a browser.
My problem is quite a big one: I don't know where to start. I've been searching for a couple hours but I don't think I'm using the correct terminology.
Thank you all in advance. Any help would be appreciated, even if it's just pushing me in the right direction by giving me a couple things to search for.
I would suggest start with this: http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/
First make sure your tabs are working with the simple static content
Second upgrade it so every time tab switched, it loads content from the database.
Depending on a tab you can customize request to the server with the status=(NEW,PROCESSES,REFUND ...), and do the query and return a proper data for the tab.
Hope it helps

Can anyone suggest a jQuery shoutbox plugin that writes to an SQL database?

I need a sort of chatbox for a project I'm working on and I don't fancy getting into the nitty-gritty of it myself. Can anyone recommend a good plugin?
My requirements are...
Auto-update with jQuery for anyone viewing the page, not just the user.
Writes to an SQL database, not a text file.
Written in the most recent jQuery.
I looked at one from Code Forest and one from AjaxDaddy but the former did not update for everyone and the latter was written in dated jQuery and wrote to a text file.
Any other suggestions? Thanks very much.
On the first link you tried, everybody get updated but the refresh happens every 15 seconds.
That could easily be changed inside refresh_shoutbox function in this line:
// recurring refresh every 15 seconds
setInterval("refresh_shoutbox()", 15000);
where 15000 is a number of miliseconds.
This one is more up-to-date: http://yensdesign.com/2009/01/create-a-shoutbox-using-php-and-ajax-jquery/
Edit: This one is payed, but also working: http://codecanyon.net/item/shoutcloud-flexible-phpajax-shoutboxchat/full_screen_preview/125018 (no affiliate, no connection or what so ever!)
I've used QShout a few times in the past. It works fine, is somewhat modern (jq 1.4) and is fairly easy to extend.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/QShout

Best way to create an auto-rotating "news" feed on a website?

my client is asking for an auto-rotating news feed type thing on their site. The content will not change, but it will automatically move from item to the next. It will also allow the user to mouse over previous items and hold them in place.
This is best shown by the type of thing you find on Yahoo's homepage:
The four news items will auto-rotate, but when a user puts their mouse over one (as shown), it will stop rotating and just show that one, until they move it away (then it will continue auto-rotating).
I imagine I can do this with a lot of $('item1').fade and $('item2').appear type malarky using Prototype and Scriptaculous, but I was wondering if there was a better way, or an existing bit of code I could use (it seems like quite a common thing, these days).
Thanks for any tips or assistance!
Took a little googling to find one but this looks exactly like your provided example:
http://www.agilecarousel.com/flavor_2.htm
Here are some other, simpler carousels that have been out in the wild for a little longer:
http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/
http://www.thomaslanciaux.pro/jquery/jquery_carousel.htm
http://www.baijs.nl/tinycarousel/
Hope this helps and good luck!

How should I go about this?

I have a MySQL Database of more or less 100 teachers, their names, and their phone numbers, stored in tables based upon their department at the school. I'm creating an iPhone app, and I've found that UITableViews and all the work that comes with it is just too time consuming and too confusing. Instead, I've been trying to create a web page on my server that loads all the data from MySQL and displays it using HTML, PHP, jQuery, and jQTouch for formatting.
My concept is that the separators will be by department, and the staff will be sorted alphabetically under each department. On the main page, each person's name will be clickable so they can go to ANOTHER page listing their name, email address, and telephone number, all linked so that the user can tap on the email or number and immediately email or call that person, respectively.
HOWEVER, I am completely at a loss for how I should start. Can anyone point me in the right direction for displaying the data? Am I going about it wrong in using PHP? Should I opt for something COMPLETELY different?
PHP to manage the database interaction and generate HTML is fine. There are heaps of tutorials on how to do that (e.g. http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_mysql_intro.asp) How to make it look nice is beyond the scope of this answer, and I'd recommend you search for table/CSS examples to get some ideas of what looks good and how they're implemented. If you need interactivity such as expanding rows or changing colors, then jQuery would be an appropriate next step, though you certainly don't need more than HTML + CSS for a nice looking table representation.
What I don't know about is the auto email/call functionality you're after, and whether you can get that "for free" from whatever is rendering the HTML. That's iPhone specific, not PHP/jQuery/etc... And I'd second Alex's advice that if UITableView is the right tool for the job then you will definitely be better off in the long run just buckling down and learning it. (And going through that will probably make pickup up other parts of the API much easier to boot.)
Instead of loading my PHP in my <body>, I created a function that retrieved the data via mysql_fetch_assoc(), which added all the information and created each individual div of data AS WELL AS injecting a <script> to $.append() the list item content for each item retrieved via the mysql_fetch_assoc(). Thanks for the responses anyway!

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