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Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery

You're reading from   Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery Using gaming principles to make learning more engaging, motivating, and interactive is a growing trend in web development. It's called gamification, and this book is the complete introduction to its theory and practice.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168119
Length 124 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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In our e-learning application we wrote a lot of code. We wrote code either in our database in MySQL, in PHP, on the client side, or in JavaScript specifically, or in particular, we worked with jQuery wherever possible, which is just a library of JavaScript functions that helps us to do things but there are some things that we could have done to spruce up, or to make the application a lot cleaner and a lot nicer. We could have found a lot of that functionality for free in the jQuery plugins.

An important factor that we might want to take a look at is a plugin that helps us build dialog boxes, for example (Alertify.js), which is freely available on the Web. We might also possibly consider working with icheck.js, which is a jQuery plugin that enhances form controls. It is completely customizable and even works in a mobile environment. We are able to make our buttons and our checkboxes a lot nicer-looking.

We could have possibly also used one jqueryfileupload object, which...

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