April 14th, 2010
If you use the Cart class that was introduced in CodeIgniter 1.7.2 very often, you’ll notice that it has some shortcomings. In particular, the update() method will only update the quantity of the item in the cart; it will not update other indexes.
This is troublesome because sometimes you may want to update the price, for example, if the quantity goes above a certain threshold. Suppose you want to give a 10% discount on an item to anyone who orders 10 or more of that item. As it stands, you would have to remove the item from the cart, calculate the discount for the item, and re-add the item with a different price. I have also ran into the problem when I added a flag index to items in the cart to which I needed to do additional processing during checking depending on its status. I’ve found in both cases that the better solution is to extend the cart class. Here is how we can do it.
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April 6th, 2010
A lot of times, you’ll want to call a javascript function when a checkbox is changed from unchecked to check and vice versa. Up until the release of jQuery 1.4, the obvious way to do it (the jQuery .change() event) did not work properly across all versions of Internet Explorer. Instead, you had to check for the .click() event. This was an accessibility problem because it did not fire when a user changed a checkbox with the space bar instead of by clicking. Well, now we can rejoice. The following code snippet works exactly how you think it would across browsers, including IE.
<!-- Load jQuery, and the necessary html -->
<script type='text/javascript src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js'></script>
<input type='checkbox' name='my_checkbox' value='true' checked='checked'>
$(document).ready(function(){
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$(":checkbox").change(function(){
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if($(this).attr("checked"))
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{
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//call the function to be fired
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//when your box changes from
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//unchecked to checked
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}
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else
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{
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//call the function to be fired
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//when your box changes from
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//checked to unchecked
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}
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});
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});
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