Apr 5

20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project

Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.

The post below is made up of the best 20 PHP + jQuery Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.

1. Directory Trees With PHP And jQuery

A simple way to keep track of many files is to use a directory tree. A directory tree lists out files and directories so that it’s easy to find what you’re looking for. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a directory tree using PHP and jQuery.

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2. Create a Photo Admin Site Using PHP and jQuery

A sceencast tutorial for creating a photo site using PHP, jQuery, and AJAX. You will learn how to retrieve images from a database, create a simple login form with authentication, and then allow for the database to be asynchronously updated.

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3. Asynchronous Comments with PHP, jQuery, and JSON

In this article, learn how to create a simple but effective means of capturing and displaying visitor comments using a blend of jQuery, PHP and JSON. In the public forum that is the blogosphere, the ability to capture and display visitor comments on your blogs can give you instant feedback and opinions from the people that matter most – those that read your blog.

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4. PHP ajax login form using Jquery

Create a new PHP ajax login functionality using Jquery. You can easliy switch the data source between database and PHP array, login authentication can be using username or email, or even both of ‘em by changing the config, automattic redirection could be done within the javascript config.

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5. PHP + jQuery Todo List Part 1, part2

This is part 1 of a 2 part series on making a Todo List with PHP and enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX and manipulation capabilities.

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6. Newsletter module

A PHP, jQuery and AJAX module, which should be great for any newsletter management needs. You just need to copy one file onto your site, and you’re ready to send and archive all newsletters, manage e-mail addresses and categories, and configure a template for your e-mails. Also have an ability of optional password protection. All options can be easily configured at the top of included .php file.

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7. From PHP to XML to jQuery and Ajax

This tutorial will focus on getting data from a database using PHP, converting that to an XML document, and reading that XML in through jQuery via Ajax calls. Seems complex, but is in fact, very easy.

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8. How to Validate Forms in both sides using PHP and jQuery

We are going to learn how to validate your forms using PHP and jQuery in both sides: client side (using javascript with jQuery) and server side (using PHP). It will be interesting to see how to use regular expressions to validate different kind of e-mails, passwords and more.

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9. Create a shoutbox using PHP and AJAX

We will learn how to create a dynamic ajax based shoutbox with jQuery from scratch. It will be very interesting to know how to use the ajax function of jQuery and how it can be used to insert and recover data from a MySQL database via PHP in a way asynchronous.

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10. HOWTO: PHP and jQuery upload progress bar

With the controllable jQuery Progress Bar, writing a form upload progress bar seems like a piece of cake now. Hypothetically, all we need is to create the bar, poll for the progress of the file upload, drive the new progress bar value (in percentage) and set it using PHP.

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11. Auto-Complete Field with jQuery, JSON & PHP

Using jQuery with PHP to create auto complete field, beside the auto-complete code we need the jQuery library along with its Dimensions plug-in.

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12. A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion

Learn how to recreate the effect from Apple website by creating a fancy apple.com-style search suggestion. This example makes use of several techniques: MySQL (for the database), HTML/CSS for styling, PHP for retrieving the data and jQuery for the AJAX request.

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13. PHP & jQuery image upload and crop v1.2

Create a PHP and jQuery image upload and crop tool using PHP, jQuery, PHP GD Library and Image Area Select.

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14. FlickrScrollr

FlickrScrollr is a combination of PHP and jQuery that parses a Flickr RSS feed and creates an animated thumbnail display.

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15. Reddit-style Voting With PHP, MySQL And jQuery

If you are a regular at Reddit, you must have noticed the way people vote there. You can either vote up or vote down. This tutorial will show you how to create such a voting system with jQuery, PHP and MySQL.

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16. SMTP Feedback Mail class with jQuery Slide Effect

This post is about feedback mail with nice slide effect using php SMTP class and jQuery. It’s very useful to add contact/feedback page to your php websites.

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17. Ajax Add a Record with Button Status Change using jQuery

If you like Facebook and Twitter API method of clicking follow, add a friend button. Where you click the button, the button status changed to ‘You following’ and ‘Remove’ at the same time request inserted into database. This tutorial will show you how to do it.

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18. Refreshing an element at a set time interval using jQuery and a sprinkle of Ajax

Now lets say that you a web page that has a big Block of “something” and inside this “something” you would like to have some information change at a set time interval. Well with Jquery, some PHP and a sprinkle of Ajax, you can get this done quick fast and in a hurry.

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19. CakePHP Ajax “Quick Save” with jQuery

When you are in an administration panel, sometimes you want a “quick save” feature that allows you to save without leaving the page. Here is how to accomplish this with CakePHP and jQuery.

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20. PHP / jQuery Image Replacement

This is a tiny plugin that, in combination with a separate server-side script, dynamically replaces the text of an element with an image, generated using fonts you specify. This allows you to use beautiful text in headings without having to manually produce images in Photoshop, GIMP, or similar.

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91 Responses, Add Comment +

  1. joão 5 April 2009

    Impressive article!
    You should post some more stuff about jQuery integration with CakePHP :)

  2. Matt Evans 5 April 2009

    Awesome! – Thanks :-)

  3. Marcus 5 April 2009

    Great! Wanderfull!

    The best for me is a 6th tut. I’m find for it :-)

    Muito bom! eu estava procurando isso :-D

  4. Brandon Cox 5 April 2009

    I’m totally in love with jquery… I mean, not in a wierd way, just sort of a distant admiration. Anyway, thanks for the collection!

  5. miron 5 April 2009

    yea i agree with joão :)

    keep it up!

  6. Dumitru Brînzan 5 April 2009

    Very nice list! Thanks for compiling it!

  7. Johnson Koh 5 April 2009

    This list is amazing! Thanks so much!

  8. Danh ba web 2.0 5 April 2009

    Great list. Thanks you very much
    Nice day

  9. Daniel 5 April 2009

    Great and useful list here. I´ll use some of them i think. Thanks.

  10. jack 5 April 2009

    thanks, nice list

  11. saurabh shah 5 April 2009

    nice article….. very useful …

  12. Marco 5 April 2009

    Great round-up Noura! Pretty cool to see many of these amazing and yet very useful jQuery articles in one place.

    Also, thanks for including one of my articles (A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion)!

    Greetings,,,

  13. Martin Gonzalez 6 April 2009

    very nice!!!
    i was looking for some of this tutorials :D

  14. webchecker 6 April 2009

    Hey, this is a beauty. first time came to know about jquery and it wide usage. excellent article :) keep it up.

  15. insic 6 April 2009

    useful list.

  16. Design freak 6 April 2009

    very useful script… thanks for the list

  17. Dinesh 6 April 2009

    Much thanks man.. Newsletter Management! This is what i’m looking for past couple of days.. much much thanks.

  18. helpful scripts thanks for the list..

  19. taylan 6 April 2009

    Great list, Thanks a lot.

  20. George Campos 6 April 2009

    Great list!

    Thanks

    George Campos
    Sao Paulo – Brazil

  21. sean steezy 6 April 2009

    sweetness. thanks!

  22. Jason Grant 6 April 2009

    Very useful. Some of these are on the cutting edge of reusable AJAX patterns, which is really nice to see.

    This one is definitely a keeper.

  23. Tutorial Library 6 April 2009

    very useful tutorial thanks

  24. Amber Weinberg 6 April 2009

    amazing list, thanks!

  25. King Don 6 April 2009

    A friend sent this link to me, and i’m so happy he did. Can’t wait to jump in. I can see 4 of these i want to use right away.

  26. Jason Lengstorf 6 April 2009

    Thanks for featuring my FlickrScrollr!

    Great list!

  27. Sklep Zoologiczny 6 April 2009

    Another idea for new website. Thanks!

  28. art2code 6 April 2009

    thanks for those useful tuts !

  29. Abhisek 6 April 2009

    Thanks for posting one of my tuts. :)

  30. Farid Hadi 6 April 2009

    This is a good, useful list. Thanks for sharing.

  31. Josh Read 7 April 2009

    Such a fantastic resource. Thank you!

  32. AlfredN 7 April 2009

    Thanks for this, there’s no doubt in my mind that jquery has eased many of my own issues.

  33. Fred Rivett 7 April 2009

    An interesting read with some helpful tuts, cheers!

  34. W3Planting 7 April 2009

    this post is simply a cool one!

  35. Pradeep 8 April 2009

    I am a regular reader of your website. I like the way you find out lots of cool things and put it in one place. It makes our life so simple.Thanks and great job man!

  36. awake 8 April 2009

    This was wack! sorry

  37. Kim H 8 April 2009

    The Flickr scroll is especially nice – I think I have a few of these bookmarked. Thanks for making life simple!

  38. jack 8 April 2009

    thanks! this is very useful!

  39. z.Yleo77 13 April 2009

    I like these script. ..thx

  40. Rahul 14 April 2009

    Wow man this is a gigantic post.

  41. Arjen 16 April 2009

    Great article, there are some really good ones in your list! Thanks for sharing!

  42. Sheevaa 16 April 2009

    The Real 20 Useful PHP + j Query Components…. Nice Share

  43. I really enjoyed this post and will be referencing it in our courses. Lots of our students are interested in taking their sites to the next level with PHP and jQuery :)

    Thanks,

    C

  44. Alex 22 April 2009

    thank you very much.

  45. Gopinath 25 April 2009

    You are amazing. I just cant refuse saying a BIGGGGGGGGGGGGGG thanks to you.

  46. Robert 25 April 2009

    I just discovered your site and am completely amazed with all the great resources. I’m sure i’ll be on here for a while browsing the archives. Thanks for this article.

  47. Arif Bin Forhad 26 May 2009

    Wow!! Great..post..

  48. Srinivas Tamada 4 June 2009

    Great List..

  49. Shyju P Nair 18 October 2009

    Nice. Great Job.

  50. Web Design Talk 5 November 2009

    Really like the apple auto suggest. That’s very cool, much betetr than vanilla suggest boxes.

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