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AHAX WordPress Plugin

A couple weeks ago I was looking for a simple way to make AJAX requests on admin or public WordPress pages from a theme or plug-in. After a bit of searching I could not find the solution I was looking for – so I built my own, AHAX.

AHAX is a drop-in solution that allows theme or plug-in developers to take advantage of a very simple and streamlined way of making AJAX requests.

Live Example

My goal was to make the process of setting up an AJAX request simple as possible. Below is a (very) simple example where I use AHAX to get a random number from the server on user request.

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Under The Hood

To create the example above I had to do two simple things. First, create the PHP function that handles the AJAX request in my theme’s function.php file and associate it with a specific AHAX action using ahax::bind(…). Second, create an instance of the AHAX JavaScript class and use its post method to make a request to the previously mentioned PHP function.

Back-End

PHP

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ahax::bind( 'get_random_number', 'generate_number' );
function generate_number($output) {
  $max = abs( ( int ) $_POST['max'] );
  $output = mt_rand( 0 , ( $max < = 1000 ? $max : 1000 ) );
  return $output;
}

Front-End
JavaScript

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var ahax = new AHAX();
ahax.post('get_random_number', {max:1000}, function(response) {
  jQuery('#ahax_number').html(response);
});

Breaking It Down

With this plugin I’ve attempted to make the process of creating an AJAX request as simple as possible by centering everything around an action.

The Action

In the code example above get_random_number is the action of the AHAX request. The static method ahax::bind(…) is used to create a WordPress filter that corresponds to the JavaScript ahax.post(…) method’s first argument.

A valid action is only allowed to consist of a-z, A-Z, and underscore ( _ ) characters.

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Leet Speak WordPress Plugin

During the hours between 11:30 PM and 8:00 AM — while attempting to wrap my head around the development process of a WordPress Plugin — I found myself developing this fun, yet semi-useless, plugin that allows for the on-the-fly translation of plain text into “leet speak.”

Usage

Translation of a post’s text into leet speak can be accomplished by using one of the following methods.

With the first approach one can target specific parts of their post and translate them using the [ leet ] and [ / leet ] tags.

The second method allows for the translation of an entire post into leet speak by setting a custom field of leet =  1.

Examples

  • Apple => @|*|*13
  • This is an example. => 7]-[!5 !5 @/\/ 3><@|V||*13.
  • and, of course, Leet => 1337

Admin Panel

I’ve taken advantage of WordPress’ core wp-option form creator/handlers to bring this plugin one step further by making each character fully customizable. I’ve also included “suggestions” with some of the most common alpha character to leet speak conversions.

Leet-Speak Plug-In Admin Panel

More Information

As it turns out there are many different leet speak character translations; For more information check out the Leet Speak Wikipedia Article.

License

This plugin is released under the New-BSD License.

Download

The source code is available to anyone at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/leet-speak.