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Book Description

In just a short time, you can learn how to use Ajax, JavaScript, and PHP to create interactive interfaces to your web applications by combining these powerful technologies.

No previous Ajax programming experience is required. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Ajax programming with JavaScript, PHP, and related technologies from the ground up.

Regardless of whether you run Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, the enclosed CD includes a complete Ajax programming starter kit that gives you all the programming tools, reference information, JavaScript libraries, and server software you need to set up a stable environment for learning, testing, and production.

Learn how to…

  • Build better, more interactive interfaces for your web applications

  • Make JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP work together to create Ajax effects

  • Compile an Ajax application

  • Create and consume web services with SOAP and REST

  • Avoid common errors and troubleshoot programs

  • Use popular Ajax libraries to speed up and improve common programming tasks

  • On the CD

  • XAMPP for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux—an easy-to-install package to set up a PHP- and MySQL-enabled Apache server on your computer

  • The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux

  • Prototype, Scriptaculous, Rico, and XOAD—popular JavaScript libraries for creating Ajax applications and effects

  • A complete Ajax, HTML, XML, and PHP tutorial reference library in searchable PDF format

  • Source code for the examples in the book

  • Phil Ballard is a software engineering consultant and developer specializing in website and intranet design and development for an international portfolio of clients. He has an honors degree from the University of Leeds, England, and has worked for several years in commercial and managerial roles in the high technology sector.

    Michael Moncur is a freelance webmaster and author. He runs a network of websites and has written several bestselling books about web development, networking, certification programs, and databases.

    Category: Web Development

    Covers: Ajax, JavaScript and PHP

    User Level: Beginning–Intermediate 

    Book Description

    In just a short time, you can learn how to use Ajax, JavaScript, and PHP to create interactive interfaces to your web applications by combining these powerful technologies.

    No previous Ajax programming experience is required. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Ajax programming with JavaScript, PHP, and related technologies from the ground up.

    Regardless of whether you run Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, the enclosed CD includes a complete Ajax programming starter kit that gives you all the programming tools, reference information, JavaScript libraries, and server software you need to set up a stable environment for learning, testing, and production.

    Learn how to…

  • Build better, more interactive interfaces for your web applications

  • Make JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP work together to create Ajax effects

  • Compile an Ajax application

  • Create and consume web services with SOAP and REST

  • Avoid common errors and troubleshoot programs

  • Use popular Ajax libraries to speed up and improve common programming tasks

  • On the CD

  • XAMPP for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux—an easy-to-install package to set up a PHP- and MySQL-enabled Apache server on your computer

  • The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux

  • Prototype, Scriptaculous, Rico, and XOAD—popular JavaScript libraries for creating Ajax applications and effects

  • A complete Ajax, HTML, XML, and PHP tutorial reference library in searchable PDF format

  • Source code for the examples in the book

  • Phil Ballard is a software engineering consultant and developer specializing in website and intranet design and development for an international portfolio of clients. He has an honors degree from the University of Leeds, England, and has worked for several years in commercial and managerial roles in the high technology sector.

    Michael Moncur is a freelance webmaster and author. He runs a network of websites and has written several bestselling books about web development, networking, certification programs, and databases.

    Category: Web Development

    Covers: Ajax, JavaScript and PHP

    User Level: Beginning–Intermediate 

    Table of Contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. Contents at a Glance
    4. Table of Contents
    5. Introduction
    6. Part I Web Basics Refresher
      1. Chapter 1 Workings of the Web
      2. Chapter 2 Writing and Styling Pages in HTML and CSS
      3. Chapter 3 Anatomy of an Ajax Application
    7. Part II Introducing Web Scripting with JavaScript
      1. Chapter 4 Creating Simple Scripts in JavaScript
      2. Chapter 5 Working with the Document Object Model (DOM)
      3. Chapter 6 Using Variables, Strings, and Arrays
      4. Chapter 7 Using Functions and Objects
      5. Chapter 8 Controlling Flow with Conditions and Loops
      6. Chapter 9 Using Built-In Functions and Libraries
    8. Part III Introducing Ajax
      1. Chapter 10 The Heart of Ajax—the XMLHTTPRequest Object
      2. Chapter 11 Talking with the Server
      3. Chapter 12 Using the Returned Data
      4. Chapter 13 Our First Ajax Application
    9. Part IV Server-side Scripting with PHP
      1. Chapter 14 Getting to Know PHP
      2. Chapter 15 Variables
      3. Chapter 16 Flow Control
      4. Chapter 17 Functions
      5. Chapter 18 Using Classes
    10. Part V More Complex Ajax Technologies
      1. Chapter 19 Returning Data as Text
      2. Chapter 20 AHAH—Asynchronous HTML and HTTP
      3. Chapter 21 Returning Data as XML
      4. Chapter 22 Web Services and the REST and SOAP Protocols
      5. Chapter 23 A JavaScript Library for Ajax
      6. Chapter 24 Ajax Gotchas
    11. Part VI Ajax Tools and Resources
      1. Chapter 25 The prototype.js Toolkit
      2. Chapter 26 Using Rico
      3. Chapter 27 Using Script.aculo.us
      4. Chapter 28 Using XOAD
    12. Appendix JavaScript, PHP, and Ajax Websites
    13. Glossary
    14. Index
    15. Where are the Companion Content Files?
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