Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional by Lee Babin

by Lee Babin

Ajax breathes new life into web applications by transparently communicating and manipulating data in conjunction with a server-based technology. Of all the server-based technologies capable of working in conjunction with Ajax, perhaps none are more suitable than PHP, the world's most popular scripting language.Beginning Ajax with From Novice to Professional is the first book to introduce how these two popular technologies can work together to create next-generation applications. Author Lee Babin covers what you commonly encounter in daily web application development tasks, and shows you how to build PHP/AJAX-enabled solutions for forms validation, file upload monitoring, database-driven information display and manipulation, web services, Google Maps integration, and more. You'll learn how toTake advantage of PHP and advanced JavaScript capabilities to create next-generation, highly responsive Web applications. Enhance commonplace application tasks such as forms validation and tabular data display. Manage cross-browser issues, ensuring your applications run on all major Web browsers. Take advantage of the Google Maps API and add spatial mapping features to your website. You'll also be introduced to other key topics like conquering cross-platform issues, countering potential security holes, and testing and debugging JavaScript with efficiency. All examples are based on real-world scenarios, so you'll be able to apply what you learn to your own development situations.

Genres: Programming, Technology

Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

Reviews

[Mike Ree · Rating 2 out of 5]

The demonstration's are very bloated. I feel like I learned everything I needed to know in the first chapter then the rest of the book was for people who have no idea how to apply what they just learned.

I was very bored with this book.