| Book Name: | AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications |
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AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications
Book Description:
AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications is the most practical and efficient resource a reader can get to enter the exciting world of AJAX. This book will teach you how to create faster, lighter, and better web applications using the AJAX ingredients technologies to their full potential. Assuming a basic knowledge of PHP, XML, JavaScript, and MySQL, this book will help you understand how the heart of AJAX beats and how the constituent technologies work together. This book is written web developers with basic knowledge of PHP, XML, JavaScript, and MySQL. After teaching foundations, the reader will walk you through numerous real-world case studies covering tasks you’ll be likely to need for your applications: * Server-enabled form-validation page * Online chat collaboration tool * Customized type-ahead text entry solution *Real-time charting using SVG * Database-enabled, editable and customizable data grid * RSS aggregator application * A server-managed sortable list with drag&drop support using thescript.aculo.us JavaScript toolkit The appendices guide you through installing your working environment, using powerful tools that enable debugging, improving, and profiling your code, working with XSLT and XPath.
Chapter 1: AJAX and The Future Of Web Applications is an initial incursion into the world of AJAX and the vast possibilities it opens up for web developers and companies to offer a better experience to their users. In this chapter, you’ll also build your first AJAX-enabled web page, which will give you a first look at the component technologies.
Chapter 2: Client-Side Techniques with Smarter JavaScript will guide you through the technologies you’ll use to build AJAX web clients, using JavaScript, DOM, the XMLHttpRequest object, and XML. While not a complete tutorial for the technologies, you’ll be on the right track to using them together to build a solid foundation for your future applications.
Chapter 3: Server-Side Techniques with PHP and MySQL completes the theory foundation by presenting how to create intelligent servers to interact with your AJAX client. You’ll learn various techniques for implementing everyday tasks, including handling security and error addressing problems.
Chapter 4: AJAX Form Validation guides you through creating a responsive, modern form with real-time validation based on server data.
Chapter 5: AJAX Chat presents a simple online chat that works exclusively using AJAX code, without Java applets, Flash code, or another specialized library, as most chat applications work these days.
Chapter 6: AJAX Suggest and Autocomplete build a Google-suggest-like feature that helps you find PHP functions and forward you to the official help page for the chosen function.
Chapter 7: SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a text-based graphics language used to draw shapes and text. (SVG is supported natively by Firefox 1.5 and requires an SVG plugin with other browsers). This case study teaches how to implement a real-time charting solution with AJAX and SVG.
Chapter 8: AJAX Grid teaches you how to build a robust updatable data grid. You’ll learn how to parse XML documents using XSLT to generate the looks of your grid.
Chapter 9: AJAX RSS Reader uses the SimpleXML PHP library, XML and XSLT, to build a simple RSS aggregator.
Chapter 10: AJAX Drag and Drop demonstrates using the script.aculo.us framework to build a simple list of elements with drag&drop functionality. Appendix A: Configuring Your Working Environment teaches you how to install and configure the required software: Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin.
AJAX And PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications
Author(s): Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea, Filip Chereches-Tosa, Mihai Bucica
Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: 2006
ISBN: 9781904811824
