web development when not playing computer games
There are two out-of-the-box methods for multiple selection in HTML: checkboxes and the <select> tag. Neither are perfect - I’ll be discussing why, and proposing a sort of mashup of the best aspects of both, using jQuery.
Right - thought I’d post some actual code as proof of actual development.
I wrote the first version of my CMS back-end in PHP, and sent data to a Javascript front-end using JSON. This was fantastically fast and simple - the string only need be checked for dangerous syntax, and then eval-ed and it becomes Javascript objects ready to use. The pot-noodle of data formats.