Just realised it has been a year since I posted anything on here! Time really flies when you’re busy!
I remember when I was first starting off with jQuery, JSON and all that jazz that I struggled to find some simple examples of how to do things like send data to a web-service.
Here is a quick example of how to send some JSON data (as a single post field) to a web service, using jQuery’s post method.
Keep in mind that if you are posting to another domain you may need to use something called jsonP – but if you are just learning, this is a good starting point!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSON Web Service Demo</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
//this code will be added to the onclick event
$('#save_user_button').click(function() {
//add the values we need for the API to an object
var data = new Object;
//build the object
data.guid = $('#guid').val();
data.defaultallocation = $('#projecttype').val();
data.email = $('#email').val();
data.username = $('#username').val();
data.fullname = $('#fullname').val();
//turn the object in to a JSON string
var myJson = JSON.stringify(data);
var url = "http://testurl/service/user";
//call the post
$.post(url, {jsonUser : myJson}, function(myResult) {
alert(myResult)
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Project Type</td>
<td><input id="projecttype"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GUID</td>
<td><input id="guid"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>User Name</td>
<td><input id="username"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Full Name</td>
<td><input id="fullname"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td><input id="email"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="button" id="save_user_button" value="Save"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have some custom functions that I store in a helper in CodeIgniter. 
This is actually much easier than any of the guides I found online make out.
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about using jQuery and JSON to automatically load data from a JSON file in to name-matched controls on an HTML page.
I have been using Ubuntu 9.10 for a while and wanted to see how it performs as a web server. The GUI interface is very slick and it is an ideal OS for beginners and advanced users alike. I suspect that many people will want to use it as the basis for their webservers.
When everything has finished installing, I suggest rebooting. There are ways of starting the servers without rebooting, but a reboot works just as well and is much easier.
We now need to let your computer know that it IS mysite.local. The easiest way to do this is to edit your hosts file. There is plenty of information