Andy Croxall is a Web developer from Wandsworth, London, England. He is a Javascript specialist and is an active member of the jQuery community, posting plugins and extensions. He has worked for clients ranging from the London Stock Exchange to Durex. You can keep up with him and his projects and creations on his website, mitya.co.uk.
A collection of JavaScript’s curiosities and well-kept secrets for intermediate developers. Andy Croxall gives you an insight into how these oddities can be useful to your code.
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In this article, Andy Croxall looks at how to combine JavaScript/jQuery with PHP and, particularly, PHP’s GD library to create an image manipulation tool to upload an image, then crop it, and finally save the revised version to the server.
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The explosion of JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery onto the front-end development scene has opened up the power of JavaScript to a far wider audience than ever before. It was born of the need — expressed by a crescendo of screaming by front-end developers who were fast running out of hair to pull out — to improve JavaScript’s somewhat primitive API, to make up for the lack of unified implementation across browsers and to make it more compact in its syntax.
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