Drag and drop category management with CakePHP
Published on Mar 11, 2009
CakePHP offers a really nice built-in tree management. In fact, at a bare minimum you simply need to create a table with 2 extra columns, tell your model to act like a "tree" and rather than doing a find('all') you do a generatetreelist() or a find('threaded') and CakePHP takes care of the rest.
After doing a quick test, I was quite impressed with what CakePHP did for me, but I was not satisified. I wanted to create a really slick category management system that I can re-use and show off. Well, in this tutorial I go about 90% of the way. The only thing I didn't have time to finish was, rather than redrawing my tree through AJAX, use DHTML and dynamically update my tree after dragging and dropping. Don't worry, I plan to finish this with a part two soon.
Drag and drop with animations in jquery
Published on Mar 10, 2009
Every year at Halloween, my company offers prizes to the best dressed employees. For the past two years I have won as well as my co-worker that partakes in our crazy costumes. You may be wondering what this has to do with drag and drop, don't worry I'm getting.
This years prize happened to be a monkey slingshot. Basically you place your index and middle fingers in pockets attached to the monkey's arms. You then proceed to pull back and let fly. Well, as you can imagine, we had a lot of fun with this guy, so much fun in fact we broke it :(
So one day after work I was messing around with drag and drop and some jQuery tutorial animations. I was quickly able to get a "mock slingshot" shooting at a target and this is what I want to share today.