jQuery Server Side ports

jQuery besides achieving such successes as being used by Google or Micro$soft also has ports to other major languages. Most of them are designed to be server-side what opens doors for new uses to the library.

jQuery ports to other languages:

• PHP – phpQuery
• Ruby – hpricot
• Perl – pQuery
• ActionScript – as3query
• Python – PyQuery

Below some snippets showing each implementation in few lines.

PHP

foreach($doc['ul > li'] as $li) {
  pq($li)->addClass('my-new-class');
      ->filter(':last')
        ->addClass('last-li');
}
$doc['ul > li:last']
  ->addClass('last-li');

Ruby

# load the RedHanded home page
doc = Hpricot(open("http://redhanded.hobix.com/index.html"))
# change the CSS class on links
(doc/"span.entryPermalink").set("class", "newLinks")

Perl

pQuery("http://google.com/search?q=pquery")
  ->find("h2")
    ->each(sub {
      my $i = shift;
        print $i + 1, ") ", pQuery($_)->text, "n";
      });

ActionScript

// add enterFrame event handler
$(stage).enterFrame(function(event:Event):void {
  $("RoundRect").attr("color", function(...args):uint {
    return Math.random() * 0xffffff;
  });
});

List comes from phpQuery wiki page. Do you know any other ports ? Share it in comments.

Update 09.12.08
New jQuery port has been released. This time it’s powered by Python and named PyQuery. Here’s the code:

Python

p = d("#hello")
p.addClass("toto")
p.attr.id = "plop"
p.prependTo(d('#test'))

														

Rails’ ActiveSupport ported to PHP

It’s year old but found it today on benlog.org. I’m verry happy since i’ve been working on project providing similar chains and now i can use well-thought Rails equivalent. Yet i will still write my own implementation as it differs in many ways.

require_once('ActiveSupport.php');
// Outputs "14th"
_(14)->ordinalize();
// Returns number of bytes in 7.3 megabytes
_(7.3)->megabytes();
// Returns true
_("an example sentence")->endsWith("sentence");

I really liked the idea of ‘_‘ suffix to change returned type. See lots of great examples in Rails Rubyisms Advent.