Comments on: Puh.. not my thing

By: alakhnor

alakhnor — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:27:31 +0000

Actually, I have exactly the same problem.
jquery (and js) is still something I can use but I can hardly do more…

By: alex.rabe

alex.rabe — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:41:15 +0000

Yes Alakhnor, you are right.

But my main problem is to program the DOM manipluation in a good and usefull way.

PHP is complete different, 90% of my code works with simple IF/FOR/SWITCH statements, also to understand the core WordPress code , you didn’t need a long time, even if you are not such a good programmer.

But have you ever follow up to understand the code of jCarousel or a other “simple” plugin ? My skills for that are very limited, maybe I can excuse my incapacity with the reason that I’m never learned programming… but it’s a pity.

By: alakhnor

alakhnor — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:37:39 +0000

I don’t know if there is a simpler way to do it.
The thing with jquery, is that you need to choose where you want your code to stop and where jquery takes the hand.
And you also need to choose where to put the limit between js and php.
Obviously, you don’t want to do all the calculation stuff under js or jquery (which would probably mean recode some php under js).
So, then, you can choose between php and js to display a list of pics. your method is straight. You could probably have a simpler html/CSS code though

The advantage of js would be to use an ajax routine to load the pics in the background (which you can do with jcarousel).