Using Dreamweaver Spry validation with jQuery ajax form plugin

Writing form validation code manually is a boring task. Not only that, editing or adding new fields each time and modifying the validation code accordingly is such a pain. When Dreamweaver added the Spry form validation with CS3 the nightmare is over. The greatest feature of using it is you can do the form validation work automatically with a couple of mouse clicks and no hand written code! And you can easily change/edit or add/remove the fields.

I know jQuery has simple validation plugin but you have to write the codes for it, which is time consuming. I always use the spry validation of dreamweaver as I learned using it for it’s simplicity. When I tried to use it with the jQuery ajax form submit plugin I got disappointed. It didn’t work! I didn’t stop trying. And finally I found the way which I’m gonna share with you :)

Here is the simple code that you need in the “beforeSubmit” parameter of $.ajaxForm

$("#formID").ajaxForm({
    url: "submit.php",
    beforeSubmit: function(formData, jqForm, options){
        if (Spry) { // checks if Spry is used in your page
            var r = Spry.Widget.Form.validate(jqForm[0]); // validates the form
            if (!r)
                return r;
        }
    },
    success: successFunction,
    complete: completeFunction
});

Hope that’ll help a lot boosting your web development.

Gmail uploader clone with drag drop feature : Free Download with source code

Recently I developed the gmail file uploader clone using jQuery. Here is the online demo.

I added some extra functionalists.
You can see the image thumbnails after the uploading is completed. There is a cross button at top right of each thumbnail, clicking on it will delete the image. If you right click on the image you’ll see a context menu from which you can delete the image too along with replace the existing image option.

The most interesting feature is you can drag drop the thumbnails to change the order. Yes this is essential when you need to maintain the order of images in classified sites after uploading them, also a little modification will let you edit the image order later time by dragging the thumbnails. The image name and the image title is dynamically added in the “updateInfo” form and send(post) via the hidden fields imgs[] and imgComment[]  array. You can easily get the order by php using foreach loop on $_POST['imgs'] field. Just hit the submit button after uploading 2 images and you will see the output on post.php page. (hope that makes sense).

Download it for free in a single zip file

If you have any better example of gmail uploader clone please share the links in comments.