Well, the mootorial is more helpful than I first realized. In safari the page doesn't behave at all like it should. I popped it open in firefox and can now get the comments to appear.
On Mar 13, 11:53 pm, rpflo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I just started programming (both PHP and javascript) less than a year > ago and have been able to cook up some stuff that impresses me, and > sometimes my wife. But at the moment everything I do in mootools is > pretty much something like this: > > $('something').addEvent('click',function(){ > // Do some stuff with other selectors and unmanageable code > > }); > > ... and then a lot of copy/pasting of the same code and then just > tweaking the selectors or adding a slight change. > > I'll create functions for stuff that I use throughout an application > to avoid repetition, but seriously, there's a better way and I think > I'm ready to figure it out. But I look at the stuff I create and > there's a voice saying my head "~Ryan ... you should just have a class > for this and save yourself tons of code~" and then I feel horrible > that my subconscious mocks me. > > I think I understand what a class is, and for the most part how to use > one (after all, pretty much everything in mootools is a class). > However, the mootools docs don't help. I'll never have a cat named > Micia in real life, let alone a web app. > > I've tried dissecting other people's classes but when I look at the > code and try to tweak it there are strange pieces that don't make > sense to me and don't look very "moo"-ey. The only javascript I > really know is mootools: "raw" javascript sticks out like a sore thumb > and my brain goes to mush. > > I visited clientcide's "How to write a mootools Class" > athttp://www.mootorial.com/wiki/mootorial/09-howtowriteamootoolsclass > but even then it's a little over my head. (i.e. on step two there's > slides[] on line 4 and slides[] on line 13. Why?) > > I'm going to keep poking that but in the meantime I'm looking for some > pointers and resources online. Maybe even if somebody is willing to > let me send you my code, that I think ought to be a class, and then > help me write one or two. > > Thanks so much!
