PHP Ajax Cookbook

Milan Sedliak, R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah, Roshan Bhattarai

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781849513081
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Informatica
• Thema: Sviluppo di applicazioni

In Detail

Ajax is the necessary paradigm in Web 2.0 sites. Most of the Web 2.0 sites are built with PHP and Ajax. Extending AJAX is about delivering front-end service for accessing back-end services in PHP in a quick and easy manner. With this book in hand, you will learn how to use the necessary tools for Ajaxification of websites and iPhones.

PHP AJAX cookbook will teach you how to use the combination of PHP AJAX as a powerful platform for websites or web applications. Using AJAX for Communication with Server leads to faster response with PHP at the back-end services. The combination of AJAX PHP has many features such as speeding up the user experience, giving your web client much quicker response time and letting the client browser retrieve data from the server without having to refresh the whole page. You will learn the nuances of optimization and debugging Ajax applications. Further, you will learn how to program Ajax on iPhone devices.

This book will teach you popular selector-based JavaScript followed by important concepts on debugging, optimization and best practices. There is a collection of recipes focused on creating basic utilities such as validating form using Ajax and creating a five star rating system. As jQuery is quite popular, useful tools and jQuery plugins like Ajax tooltips, tab navigation, autocomplete, shopping cart, and Ajax chat are covered subsequently. By the end of chapter 7 you will learn to visually speed up website responsiveness to building SEO-friendly Ajax websites. Also get to know about all popular Ajax webservices and APIs like Twitter, Facebook and Google Maps which are covered in Ajax Mashups. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to build iPhone apps using basic libraries and everyday useful Ajax tools.

Build rich interactive web 2.0 sites with rich standards and Mashups around PHP Ajax.

Approach

This book contains a collection of recipes with step-by-step directions to build SEO-friendly websites using standard Ajax tools. Each recipe contains behind-the-scene explanations to PHP Ajax questions.

Who this book is for

This book is an ideal resource for people who like to add Ajax features to websites and who prefer standards and best practices for building SEO-friendly websites. As the book covers advanced topics, readers need to be aware of basic PHP, JavaScript and XML features.

PHP Ajax Cookbook

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Table of Contents

PHP Ajax Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. AJAX Libraries

Designing simple navigation using jQuery

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating tab navigation

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Designing components using Ext JS

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Event handling in MochiKit

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Building a tab navigation using Dojo

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Building a chart application using YUI library

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Loading dynamic content using jQuery slider

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating an AJAX shopping cart using MooTools

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Building an AJAX login form using prototype.js

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

2. Basic Utilities

Validating a form using Ajax

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating an autosuggest control

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Making Form Wizards

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Uploading a file using Ajax

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Uploading multiple files using Ajax

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a five-star rating system

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Building a PHP Ajax contact form with validation

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Displaying a table in Ajax

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Building Pagination using PHP and Ajax

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

3. Useful Tools Using jQuery

Making tool tips using Ajax

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating Autocomplete from a database

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Building a tab navigation using jQuery

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Rotating content

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating an image slider

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating pageless pagination

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Loading images using Lightbox

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Growing textarea using the jGrow plugin

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

HTML replacement of the select dropdown

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Improving date selection with Datepicker

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Drag-and-drop functionality

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Ajax shopping cart

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Sorting and filtering data

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Adding visual effects and animations

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

4. Advanced Utilities

Building an Ajax chat system using the Comet technique

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Charting with JavaScript

Getting ready

How it works...

Drawing a line chart

Drawing a bar chart

Drawing a 3D pie chart

Decoding CAPTCHA through canvas

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Displaying data in a grid

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Other data grid plugins

Displaying millions of data items

5. Debugging and Troubleshooting

Debugging with Firebug and FirePHP

Debugging with Firebug

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Debugging with FirePHP

Getting ready

How it works...

There's more...

Debugging with the IE developer toolbar

Getting ready

How to do it...

Avoiding the framework $ conflict

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the anonymous function of JavaScript

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Fixing memory leaks in JavaScript

What is a memory leak?

What might cause a memory leak?

Fixing memory leaks

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Sequencing Ajax Requests

How to do it ...

How it works...

Cross Browser and Ajax

Beautifying JavaScript

6. Optimization

Caching of objects

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting optimization tips with YSlow

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Speeding up JavaScript delivery through automatic compression and browser caching

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Comparing JavaScript minification tools

Automatic speed up tools

Triggering JavaScript early/on DOM load

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

DOMContentLoaded and workarounds

There's more...

Lazy-loading of images

Getting ready

How to do it...

Pure JavaScript approach

Mangled HTML markup

How it works...

There's more...

Lazy-loading plugins

Lazy/deferred script loading

Optimizing Ajax applications automagically through Apache modules/Google mod_pagespeed

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Testing HTTP headers

Testing mod_pagespeed without installing

Page Speed Service

7. Implementing Best Practices to Build Ajax Websites

Avoiding HTML markup-specific coding

Getting ready

How to do...