Understanding AJAX
AJAX: fast mastery for experienced Web developers!
Already an experienced Web developer? Apply your skills in today’s fastest-growing area of Web development: AJAX!
Building on what you already know, this fast-paced guide will show you exactly how to create tomorrow’s richest, most usable Internet applications. Joshua Eichorn teaches through sophisticated code examples, including extensive back-end sample code based on PHP, the world’s #1 server-side language.
You won’t just learn how to code AJAX applications: Eichorn covers the entire development lifecycle, from use cases and design through debugging. He also presents detailed application case studies, including a start-to-finish update of a non-AJAX application that addresses everything from feature improvements to changing usage patterns.
- How AJAX changes the conventional Web development cycle
- Problems created by the AJAX paradigm — and how to avoid them
- Adding AJAX to existing Web applications: key considerations
- Using core AJAX technologies, including the XMLHttpRequest object
- Consuming data returned to an AJAX application
- Building more usable AJAX applications: guidelines and downloadable resources
- Use cases: solving real-world problems in the AJAX environment
- Libraries and toolkits for simplifying AJAX development
- A complete guide to AJAX debugging
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Good AJAX website ….very informative! Great reference material here
Oh, and If you’re interested… I have created a free PHP API for accessing a mysql database table and then performing the CRUD operations on it via AJAX.
Try it out here and let me know what you think: http://www.ajaxcrud.com
I feel it is very helpful for PHP developers–and very relavent to this article.