Here is a simple little snippet that will enable or disable text input boxes in forms using jQuery. When disabling the text boxes it prompts you to confirm it so that you don’t accidently delete your data. This might be useful for forms elements that need to be enabled or disabled when a certain checkbox is checked like in a options page. The code itself is quite self explanatory but please feel free to ask if you are having any problems.

Following on from getting to grips with PHP Checkboxes I decided to write a little tutorial on radio buttons. As you know radio buttons can only have 1 state either on or off and only one can be selected at any one time. Here is a simple tutorial on how to get data from a database, select the radio button, get data from the form and update the database.

The aim of this tutorial is simply to get the data from a checkbox and store it in a MYSQL database and on page load the data is retrieved from the database and is shown which would be suitable for an options page in a web app.

So you have just installed Wordpress? Not sure what to do next or which order to do it in? Here is a little guide to help get you started with you new Wordpress blog. This post features permalink structure, Spam blocking, SEO, Security, Social Networking and Contact forms.

Form processing is widely used and there are plenty of scripts available out there.  This experiment was to take three scripts with spam prevention, form validation and the ability to redirect the user on successful or error user submission.

I chose the following 3 to experiment with: