Tooltip API
Loading the Tooltip API


Step 1: Load the API.

Place the following code in your page's HEAD tag. The src= value is the relative location of the .js file on your web server. <script type="text/javascript" src="tooltip.1.0.2.js"></script>

Tooltip Examples


Mouse over the following.

Tooltip text - You can put tooltips over text to interactively offer your visitors more information.
<span onmouseover="tt_in('This is really cool. You should download this API.');" onmouseout="tt_out();" style="cursor: help;">Tooltip text</span>

Tooltip link - Let the visitor know more information about where they are going.
<a href="http://www.bsgonlinegames.com/" onmouseover="tt_in('BSG Online Games - Company Website');" onmouseout="tt_out();">Tooltip link</a>

An example HTML document


<html> <head> <title>Example Tooltip Document</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="tooltip.1.0.2.js"></script> </head> <body> Mouse over the following.<br /><br /> <span onmouseover="tt_in('This is really cool. You should download this API.');" onmouseout="tt_out();" style="cursor: help;">Tooltip text</span> - You can put tooltips over text to interactively offer your visitors more information. <br /> </body> </html>






PHP Tooltip Class
Using the Tooltip Class


Step 1: Load the Tooltip JavaScript API

Instructions are located at the top of this document.


Step 2: Load the class.

require_once("tooltip.class.php"); $tooltip = new bsg_ToolTip();

Step 3: Call the class object $tooltip->add or $tooltip->addLink.
// Example 1: Text Tooltip echo $tooltip->add("This is a tooltip in a span.", "This is the help information that you might want to provide on your website. <br /><br />You can put any HTML in here."); echo "<br /><br />\n"; // Example 2: Link Tooltip echo $tooltip->addLink("This is a tooltip in a link", "http://www.bsgonlinegames.com/", "This it the help tooltip text!");

For a complete example view php-example.php.

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