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I have a bunch of javascript objects flying around page that interacts with Google Maps, and I wanted to get the data out of some of the objects to pass via a jQery AJAX $.post call to a PHP script. jQuery seems to have everything, so I was surprised there wasn’t any functionality built in […]

In my controllers, I use Zend_Acl to check whether or not a user is allowed to perform an action (i.e. should the code in the method be executed). I also have to check permissions once in a method, as someone might be trying to access an object that does not belong to them - i.e. […]

I have spent over an hour trying to get a simple page using Dojo’s lightbox and no luck. I am more of a jQuery fan, but thought I would give Dojo a try since it is coupled with Zend Framework now. I tried adding the script and css tags manually to the page, not through […]

Had a question come up from a colleague that used to cause problems when I first started using JavaScript. How to test whether a variable is undefined:

var a = ‘defined’
if(typeof a == ‘undefined’) {
alert(’it is undefined’);
}

Javascript is an interesting language and like any language, the more you use it, the more functionality you find. Without getting into the specfics, I occasionally need to modify a site’s HTML and or JavaScript with an external JavaScript file (i.e I can’t touch the page I am modifying, I can only touch one external […]