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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

alexweber15 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:01:32 +1300

great how jQuery works will with others but others not so nicely with jQUery

I guess that with last week's Public Announcement that both Microsoft and Nokia are adopting jQUery as their framework we should see an even wider adoption

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

artlung — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:09:18 +1300

I switched over a bloated frontend site that used Prototype+Scriptaculous to jQuery and the only change I had to make was to use

jQuery('#my-id')

instead of

$('#my-id')

in my JavaScript. In this way jQuery is not in conflict, as jam13 indicated. Validation code on custom forms and Security/login works fine.

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

alexweber15 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:50:46 +1200

sounds pretty awful man... the reason im holding off SS for now is exactly that... i'm so deeply entrenched in jquery that it doesn't make sense to learn any of the other libraries atm

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

jam13 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:43:24 +1200

yeah im aware of noconflict but in an ideal world there wouldn't be the overhead of loading prototype to begin with! ;) (especially if you dont plan on using it at all!)

Unfortunately I don't get to play in the ideal world - we're doing stuff with Magento at the moment which has Prototype+Scriptaculous so deeply baked into the both the backend _and_ frontend that it's next to impossible to use another js framework with it. I've spent most of this morning trying to resolve a conflict between JQuery and their version of Scriptaculous.

Personally I can't wait to see SS move away from Prototype .

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alexweber15 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:49:00 +1200

yeah im aware of noconflict but in an ideal world there wouldn't be the overhead of loading prototype to begin with! ;) (especially if you dont plan on using it at all!)

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

jam13 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:29:02 +1200

I assume you aware of JQuery's noconflict mode? I'm pretty sure I remember using this to prevent it clashing with prototype in the past.

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

erwanpia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:45:46 +1200

Hi, like the idea too

for those who can't wait, I have posted a hack of the gallery module that uses jquery lightbox

http://www.webmasterbulletin.net/2008/09/silverstripe-gallery-jquery-module/307

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

alexweber15 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:33:20 +1200

nice! that's excellent news!

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

Willr — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:00:57 +1200

Well for our own client sites we have started to move towards using jQuery as the CMS is being rewritten to use jQuery rather the prototype.

If you do use jQuery at the moment things like form vaildation will not work, AJAX page comments etc, you just have to use Requirements::block() for the prototype files. Over the next releases starting with 2.3 the components of the system will be rewritten from prototype into jQuery

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

alexweber15 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:27:22 +1200

thx for your reply Josh!

after taking a more thorough look at SS i realized that as good as it seems, the fact that it uses scripatculous + proto just goes against the whole point of using jQuery...

it would be pretty hectic too with all 3 of those libs loaded... i find that with just jQuery and some plugins (namely UI) you can get the same functionality as scriptaculous+prototype with much smaller code... but anyway thats not the point of this thread

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Re: how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

Josh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:04:07 +1200

Hi Alex,

If you are just using jQuery for the display of the front-end of the website, then there is no reason why it shouldn't work with SilverStripe. Have fun!

Josh

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how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

alexweber15 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:48:24 +1200

hey all,

I pretty much have the entire front-end f a website i'm working on ready using standard HTML and plenty of custom jQuery and i'm looking for a solution so i won't have to reinvent the wheel with my back-end and admin features.

I'm currently playing around with the latest build but I was wondering how nice does SilverStripe play with jQuery?

More exactly, I basically want to create some predefined sections and customize their look and feel with my own HTML, CSS and JS and then use SilverStripe mainly to act as my back-end... is this feasible?

thanks!

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