DHTML Widgets / News: Recent posts

Version 05.06.08 of the DHTML widgets library is the most stable version to date and it now contains a fairly complete set of DHTML widgets that you can call from within your php applications. Most importantly, this release includes replacements for both SELECT and SELECT MULTIPLE html tags that will not show through your 'popup' DIV or other block elements when you overlap them. Using the functions are easy, simply unpack the tarball and copy the _dw directory into your website space. You can use the example.php file included to test your installation, and to provide examples of the widgets in action.

A more user friendly multiple select widget has been added to the dhtmlwidgets PHP function package. Use this in place of SELECT MULTIPLE in your php code. Also in this release - some bug fixes and minor code cleanup improvements.

I added a new widget I call a 'checkselect', somebody correct me if you know the correct term and if this is a common widget. I haven't seen one like it before, but it is great for setting boolean properties of objects in your DHTML gui. The syntax is similar to my other widgets and an example is up on the home page.

I added another useful DHTML widget function to the dhtmlwidgets package. dw_tabmenu() is a php function that allows you to easily create a DHTML tab menu widget. You can use this to create a multiple page form to reduce the number of page submits, or increase the user-friendliness of your form systems.

The first version of the dhtmlwidgets.org home page is now available. It is basically the example.php page included in the file distribution plus some extra data. The first working beta version of the dhtmlwidgets library was released today. Working this far are: dw_select() - a form select replacement, dw_divpop() - a simple button/content DHTML popup function, and a really cool calendar datepicker app dw_datepicker(). Enjoy!