Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional

By Lee Babin

Book Overview

Pro Ajax and PHP: Building Highly Interactive Applications is the first book to introduce how these two popular technologies can work together to create next generation applications. Covering many of the most commonplace topics developers encounter in daily web application development tasks, Babin guides readers through topics such as enhanced forms validation, data display and manipulation, JavaScript debugging, and security considerations. The result is a book that not only discusses how two of the world's most talked about technologies can come together to create amazing applications, but is also based upon a real-world context, enabling developers to immediately begin applying what they've learned to their own situation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590596676
• ISBN13: 9781590596678
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good starter

Good starter book, but there are plenty of tools and frameworks online (e.g. jQuery) that should be investigated and would probably serve the reader better than this book.

Solid Intro to Ajax

This is a solid book for those looking to get their feet wet with Ajax concepts. Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional was penned by Lee Babin of the recently formed Icona.ca. He brings a wealth of PHP knowledge to the table and effectively shows how to use it alongside JavaScript. He starts out by explaining some of the concepts behind Ajax, and how it differs from web programming in a controlled environment...

A Good Introduction to AJAX for the PHP Programmer

PHP is a very popular web scripting language. AJAX is the hottest new interactive web technology. It only makes sense to write a book to combine the two. This book does a great job of combining clear explanation of the concepts with real working code that you can reuse in your own applications. Giving me a head start with reusable code is something I always look for in a book, and this book provides a wide range of PHP...