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You may have seen Facebook’s technique that extracts content of remote URL when a user types a URL in the status text-box filed. In this article, we will try to create a similar type of Ajax based URL content extractor using jQuery and PHP.
I’ve been playing with a layout that needed an good looking dropdown menu, so I’ve decided to create one myself, and also created this tutorial, hopefully it will prove to be useful to those who needs similar drop down menu. We will be creating 3 level sub menus in pure CSS, it should work without any JavaScript, and at the end we will add jQuery for that sliding effect.
In previous article – Loading More Results (jQuery/PHP), the records are loaded when the users clicked on “Load more Data” button, which is great but how about loading database records automatically when user scrolls down to the bottom of the page? The technique can be seen in Twitter, Facebook and several other websites. Let’s use examples from previous article, with some modification we can create Ajax based auto loading script, which loads records when user scrolls to bottom of the page.
We can use Core Reporting API to fetch top (Popular) URLs from Google Analytics. Using Google API PHP Client let’s create a simple PHP page that pulls website’s top URLs from Google Analytics and updates MySql table. Once you are familiar, I am sure you can do lot more, I mean just checkout the information you can retrieve in this Reporting API.
