The Power Of Javascript

As the purpose of this tutorial is explain to you everything about JavaScript and the importance of it for the web developers all over the world I will first explain what is indeed JavaScript.

Professional Javascript Part 6 - Processing the Order

The user has hit submit in the order summary page (CheckoutConfirm.asp) and its action has brought us here, to ProcessOrder.asp, where we will extract the information and process the order. The order items, customer name and address and credit card information will be written to the database using the stored procedures we are about to create.

Professional Javascript Part 5 - Check 'em Out - The Online Ordering System

The online ordering system's information gathering takes place over three pages with a fourth page at the end displaying a final summary of the order which the user can accept or go back and alter if they are not happy. At some point in the checkout process, prior to any credit card details being transmitted to the server, we would normally switch to a secure connection using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which encrypts all data before it's sent to the web server.

Professional Javascript Part 4 - The MusicMad Shopping basket

The MusicMad shopping basket relies exclusively on cookies, in particular the basket cookie which we set. Given we have server-side programming available to us you may wonder why we still use cookies stored on the client machine for storing our basket's contents instead of say, session variables or the database.

Professional Javascript Part 3 - The Homepage

The homepage is the first page displayed in the main frame when the user browses to the web site.

Professional Javascript Part 2 - Building the Basic Website

We have completed the foundations of our database. We will create the stored procedures as we need them. Our next task is to create the HTML and scripting for the MusicMad web site.

Professional Javascript Part 1 - Building an E-Commerce Shop Front

In this chapter we will be building an electronic store front and online ordering system for an imaginary company called MusicMadOnline.com. It will include many of the essential elements required for an online store such as the ability to browse stock, a shopping basket and an online ordering system.

Beginning Javascript Part 5 - The Select Elements

Although they look quite different, the drop-down list and the list boxes are actually both elements created with the <SELECT> tag, and strictly speaking they are both select elements. The select element has one or more options in a list that you can select from; each of these options is defined using the <OPTION> tag. Your list of <OPTION> tags goes in between the <SELECT> and </SELECT> tags.

Beginning Javascript Part 4 - Textarea Element

The text area element allows multi-line input of text. Other than this, it acts very much like the text box element.

Beginning Javascript Part 3 - Text Elements

The standard text element allows users to enter a single line of text. This information can then be used in JavaScript code, or be submitted to a server for server-side processing.

Beginning Javascript Part 2 - HTML Elements in Forms

There are about ten elements commonly found within <FORM> elements. The most useful are shown below, ordered into general types. We give each its name and, in parentheses, the HTML needed to create it, though note this is not the full HTML but only a portion.

Beginning Javascript Part 1 - HTML

Web pages would be very boring if we could not interact with the user, or obtain information from them, such as text, numbers, or dates. Luckily, with JavaScript we can. We can use this information within the web page, or it can be posted to the web server where we can manipulate it and store it in a database if we so wish.

The Famous Javascript Back Page Routine

Navigation is a key element on your website, but what do you do when you want to give the user the option of going back to the previous page? In comes Javascript!