Overview

Sams Teach Yourself Ajax in 10 Minutes is a concise introduction to the basics of building Ajax applications and the architecture and operation of these applications. You will learn the techniques employed in using Ajax, introducing Ajax and explaining how it may be used to solve realistic user interface problems. You will be able to immediately begin building web applications, and will have platform from which to explore more advanced aspects of Ajax.

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Author:   Phil Ballard
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Sams Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 20.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 13.90cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780672328688

ISBN 10:   0672328682
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 May 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 PART I A Refresher on Web Technologies 1 Anatomy of a Website 5 2 Writing Web Pages in HTML 13 3 Sending Requests Using HTTP 27 4 Client-Side Coding Using JavaScript 36 5 Server-Side Programming in PHP 53 6 A Brief Introduction to XML 61 PART II Introducing Ajax 7 Anatomy of an Ajax Application 70 8 The XMLHTTPRequest Object 80 9 Talking with the Server 91 10 Using the Returned Data 102 11 Our First Ajax Application 112 PART III More Complex Ajax Technologies 12 Returning Data as Text 123 13 AHAH--Asynchronous HTML and HTTP 131 14 Returning Data as XML 142 15 Web Services and the REST Protocol 157 16 Web Services Using SOAP 166 17 A JavaScript Library for Ajax 173 18 Ajax Gotchas 184 PART IV Commercial and Open Source Ajax Resources 19 The prototype.js Toolkit 193 20 Using Rico 203 21 Using ZOAD 215 Index 224

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Phil Ballard is a professional web consultant specializing in website and intranet design, search engine optimization, server-side scripting, client-side design and programming and hosting. Phil has written a number of online tutorials, including the most popular of late, on AJAX.

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