Creating beautiful URLs with Agile Toolkit

By default pages created with Agile Toolkit end with .html. I myself believe that this is a good extension because HTML is being passed over. However it is easy to use different URLs in Agile Toolkit, here is how

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Lightweight CMS in Agile Toolkit (video)

As my designer says – best way to break a great web design is to give CMS access to the client. Without any consideration for style they will star moving things around and break stuff. Often not willing to pay for a proper update they will continue to tweak themselves. So what’s the alternative?

There is some – contextual editing. In this post i’ll show how you can do it in ATK

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Reloading page with AJAX

I receive a lot of questions about how to reload page with Agile Toolkit in certain conditions. There are many approaches and I wanted to write a blog post just about that.
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How to extend JavaScript in Agile Toolkit

This post continues to explain how to use JavaScript (JS) most efficiently in Agile Toolkit. Read first part first.
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How JavaScript layer works in Agile Toolkit

Half year ago we have introduced jQuery / Chain into AModules3 (former name for Agile Toolkit). It allows us to clean up a lot of older code and at the same time give developers a way to do many new things in a flexible way.

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Ordering elements

In Agile Toolkit each object you add is inserted as a child to some other object. They end up in $object->elements array, however there is no easy way to rearrange it.

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How to select elements in a grid?

Let’s say you want user to be able and select multiple elements in a grid. This can’t be done directly, because grid is supposed to list elements, it shouldn’t be built to intact with it. However grid can be extended and joined with the functionality of the Form to do what’s required.

You can see a working example here: http://atk4.agiletech.ie/grid/selectable.html

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New Grid Column Types – "button" and "ask"

With the migration to jQuery (UI) we have received lot of new fancy functionality, but some of the old things stopped worked too. However old stuff is fixable, and if there is anything – please let me know by commenting and I’ll give it a fix.

This tip explains how you can add buttons to the grid. You can see working demo here:

http://atk4.agiletech.ie/grid_columns.html

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Introduction to dialog() integration.

jQuery UI have a good support for dialogs and windows. Agile Toolkit 4 takes it to the next level. Most importantly it manages to create contents of the boxes on the fly. Let’s review what we have.
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univ().ajaxify() method

The other day I have added this method for skai, but it’s actually a very curious one.

Agile Toolkit 4 uses atk4_loader widget for AJAX requests. Syntax is very similar to jQuery:

• jQuery: $(‘#div’).load(‘url’);
• atk4:  $(‘#div’).atk4_load(‘url’);

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