Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional

  • By: Lee Babin
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Product Description

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 PHP: 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. Youll learn how to

  • Take 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.

Youll 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 youll be able to apply what you learn to your own development situations.

Product Information

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • Number of Pages: 272
  • Publisher: Apress
  • Publication Date: 2006-10-16
  • Edition: 1
  • EAN: N/A
  • ISBN: N/A

Customer Reviews

  • Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional
    This book is a waste of money. It is called beginning Ajax and PHP, but the codes are barely (if any at all) explained. Most critical parts of the codes explanation are not even paid attention to or is totally ignored, and some of the codes don't even work. This book act as repository of bunch of codes, and that's all it is.
  • Horrid coding
    The samples you can download from apress are NOTHING like what the writer has written in his book. He mixes his languages in the code in the samples, then when things don't work, you can't go back to the code that you dl'ed from him, as it's nothing like the book.
  • Error filled piece of @#$@#
    Were the editors asleep when they put this out? A couple other people commented on the errors, but still gave it a 3 star rating.
  • Too many errors in code
    I was excited about this book until I realized how many errors there are in the source code! It makes it very impractical to work with, too bad!!
  • Stephen Rider's Review is Dead On...
    Wish I'd read the reviews more carefully before buying this book. Stephen Rider's criticisms are exactly right. I was particularly disappointed with excessive use of the innerHTML object.