My plan to create a PHP/MySQL implementation of my PhotoNotes script was completed sooner than expected thanks to the requests and encouragement I’ve received on the project page. This was the perfect opportunity for me to teach myself some AJAX: creating, updating, and deleting notes all happens without a page reload.

Better error handling is something I will work on in a future release. Right now, the user will not see any errors occurring from the PHP script. This is an area that needs to mature for AJAX in general. I skipped through a couple AJAX books at the book store and one didn’t even have the word “error” or “exception” in the table of contents!

Projects AJAX, JavaScript, MySQL, PhotoNotes, PHP

My next coding side-project is another WordPress plugin. After posting some photos of my breadboard, I decided it would be nice to have a way to add notes to those photos. The current solution is Mbedr which I’m not happy with because it requires that the photos be hosted on Flickr and makes a call to Mbedr’s web server.

Take a look at the PhotoNotes project page to see my progress so far. It’s not yet saving any changes to the database but having some working display code means that I’m half way there.

Projects JavaScript, PhotoNotes, WordPress