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Mastering jQuery UI

You're reading from   Mastering jQuery UI Become an expert in creating real-world Rich Internet Applications using the varied components of jQuery UI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783286652
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vijay Joshi Vijay Joshi
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Designing a Simple Quiz Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Jigsaw Puzzle Game 3. Creating a Website Tour 4. Creating a Tabbed News Reader 5. Implementing CAPTCHA using Draggable and Droppable 6. Creating an Event Timeline Using a Slider 7. Using jQuery UI with Google Maps API 8. Creating a Photo Album Manager 9. Creating Widgets Using the Widget Factory 10. Building a Color Picker with Hex RGB Conversion 11. Creating a Fully Functional Dashboard A. Best Practices for Developing with jQuery UI Index

Editing, deleting, and rearranging pictures


Before we code, let's see how the edit, delete, and rearrange operations will work.

On clicking on the edit icon, a dialog box appears with the image name in a text box. The user will edit this name and click on the Save button. Clicking on the Save button will send an AJAX request to a PHP script. The album ID, picture ID, and edited name will be sent to this script. Depending on the album ID and picture ID, the PHP script will change the name of said image in the original albums.json file.

Similarly, to delete an image, we will send the album id and picture id to the PHP script. The PHP script will delete the image from the original albums.json file.

To rearrange the sequence of images, we will get the current sequence on the page, which the user has made after reordering the images. We will send this sequence to the PHP script, and the script will update sequence values for each picture in album.

Editing a picture name

On clicking on the Save button...

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