I was recently completing a project which required that I build a series of HTML tables which would represent all of the tables within a MySQL database.  I didn’t have anything created but after a few minutes I had exactly what I needed. Hopefully this helps you out!

The CSS

table.db-table 		{ border-right:1px solid #ccc; border-bottom:1px solid #ccc; }
table.db-table th	{ background:#eee; padding:5px; border-left:1px solid #ccc; border-top:1px solid #ccc; }
table.db-table td	{ padding:5px; border-left:1px solid #ccc; border-top:1px solid #ccc; }

The CSS I’m styling the table with is as basic as it gets — style as you wish!

This blog post is intended to provide a starting point for ServerSide JavaScript (SSJS) development with MooTools. It is focused on NodeJS (http://nodejs.org) and tries to explain the main concepts and differences from client side development. It is solely based on my current experience, my current work, and the best practices I have defined for myself so far – though most of this has been heavily influenced by people from other people of the MooTools team.

How to Setup NodeJS

• Download from http://nodejs.org/#download

Keeping equal heights between elements within the same container can be hugely important for the sake of a pretty page. Unfortunately sometimes keeping columns the same height can’t be done with CSS — you need a little help from your JavaScript friends. Well…now you’re in luck.

I was recently reviewing a few MooTools-driven websites and one of the questions I wrote down was “Which MooTools Core classes do you use and how many classes have you created?” Then I asked myself if there was a way I could figure that out myself. The end result is a JavaScript bookmarklet that finds all of the MooTools classes defined within the Window object.

MooTools 1.3 beta 2 was recently released and you may see a few new methods implemented to String, Array, Number, and Function: from. The from method of each of those Types returns an object of that type. Simply put: you’ll always receive back an object of that type based on what you give it.

The New Method Code

Function.from = function(item){
	return (typeOf(item) == 'function') ? item : function(){
		return item;
	};
};

Array.from = function(item){
	if (item == null) return [];
	return (Type.isEnumerable(item) && typeof item != 'string') ? (typeOf(item) == 'array') ? item : Array.prototype.slice.call(item) : [item];
};

Number.from = function(item){
	var number = parseFloat(item);
	return isFinite(number) ? number : null;
};

String.from = function(item){
	return item + '';
};

The from method is added to String, Array, Number, and Function natives. Enough with the underlying code though — examples are easier to understand.