QuackFuzed.com is the personal ColdFusion coding blog of Matt Quackenbush. It exists primarily as a place for the author to learn, and hopefully to assist others in learning and/or avoiding some of the same pitfalls and mistakes. (Quack certainly makes enough mistakes daily to make up for the entire ColdFusion community.)
The latest release of the cfUniForm custom tag library features a new jQuery plugin integration, as well as enhancements to the jQuery plugin integrations.
Dan Wilson will be presenting the cfUniForm ColdFusion tag library to the CF Meetup today (Thursday, 10/02/08) at Noon Eastern time.
cfUniForm is a ColdFusion custom tag library that generates XHTML 1.0 Strict-compliant forms for you based upon the Uni-Form markup. It also has integrated support for a number of jQuery plugins. For more information on the presentation, please visit the CF Meetup.
A week or so ago I posted about Dan Wilson's cfUniForm preso to the Hartford, CT CFUG. If you were unable to attend, no worries, as the recording is now online! View preso recording.
Do you want to make sexy, accessible, XHTML compliant forms without endless typing? Would you like to add widgets like masks, date pickers, time pickers to your applications with ease? Do you like accessible, feature-rich forms built with no muss, no fuss? Then be sure to block out your calendar on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 7:30PM (Eastern), and join the Hartford, CT CFUG as Dan Wilson presents the cfUniForm tag library and see awesome forms built in record time.
The other day I announced the v2 release of the Uni-Form Custom Tag Library, which contains a number of enhancements and jQuery plugin integrations. One thing *very* important detail that I forgot to mention:
If you are using the Validation plugin, you *must* use jQuery 1.2.2 or higher.
As long as you are using the current release you are fine, since it is at 1.2.6 as of this posting. If you use anything 1.2.1 or earlier, you will have all sorts of JavaScript errors being thrown.
Update
This post only applies to those of you who are loading jQuery on your own. If you are relying on the tags to load jQuery for you, jQuery-1.2.6 is the release that is loaded. :-)
It's been almost six months now since I released v1 of the library, so I figured it was high time I make time to add some enhancements. Here's a quick overview of the new features:
Let's look at some of the new goodies in more detail...
I've mentioned before that I <3 ColdBox and that I <3 jQuery. Independently of one another, they are just a pleasure to work with. Today I decided to write my first-ever jQuery-powered AJAX functionality inside a ColdBox-powered application. It's ridiculously simple to do - one might even say sinful. So easy in fact, that I decided to post a quick "tutorial" on how to handle a pretty common task with ColdBox and jQuery.
In case you hadn't heard yet, jQuery is a seriously bad-ass, lightweight library that I'm in love with. Here's what the official jQuery site has to say about it:
"jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript."
However, you can always leave it to a guy like me to find a way to screw things up.
I don't know if I've ever mentioned it before, but I really love jQuery. It's such a lightweight, yet very powerful tool. There are so many really cool things that you can do with jQuery, and I'm really no authority on the matter, but here is one really basic task that I use it for.
