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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - 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. I had more headaches from this book than any other technical book I've ever owned.
It's unfortunate apress didn't bother to really go over this book with a fine tooth comb, or they would have noticed the simple things like ... Read More
Rating: - 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. They were being kind. You can't learn anything when the examples are so completely riddled with errors. Others commented on the use of the deprecated innerHTML. For $35 I expect better from an author and his publisher. This one is being returned.
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!!
Rating: - 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. It's been deprecated and should not have been included in a book published in 2007. The long code examples are as Stephen says, too. At the very least, some way of highlighting the difference or addition in them to bring it to the reader's attention would have been better. I read "Head Rush Ajax" before this, and ... Read More
Rating: - Good intro, but many errors and poor explanations
The author gives a good intro to Ajax and PHP combined. Gives you a good understanding of what those two are able to do together.
Sadly this get ruined by a lot of mistakes in the sample code provided, one example being an SQL phrase that actually will make the script not work. Also he dump several pages of code right in your face, but fails at explaining properly what's going on, leaving you with the feeling he might have "borrowed" the code from somewhere and not really knowing himself what ... Read More
- Horrid coding
