There and Back Again

AJAX library for php with a focus on doing all the coding php side. Allows for very clean html, as all the javascript is generated from your php classes. Basic development is object oriented and widget based. So on the javascript side you just attach your widgets to dom elements based on id. This leaves the heavy lifting to happen in php or in some other javascript library your pulling in. AjaxAC include code to auto generate various callbacks which is quite handy. The biggest problem I see is that if you don't create a javascript utility library you end up having to write lots of javascript inside php strings which is a mess to debug especially since it will spit out with other generated code making errors hard to track down.

Well written article, if your interested in AjaxAC you should start with this. It seems to use best practices of developing with AjaxAC so it will be a good model to follow in future development. Its light on the overall overview of how the toolkit works but you can follow its model to build your own small app. The example app is a google suggest clone.