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Spice up PHP applications with OpenLaszlo, Part 1: Create interactive interfaces

Your first OpenLaszlo application

Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com), Freelance writer, Backstop Media
Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web-site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nick has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, an Oracle instructor, and the Chief Technology Officer of an interactive communications company. He is the author of several books, including XML Primer Plus (Sams).

Summary:  This "Spice up PHP applications with OpenLaszlo" tutorial series shows you how to use OpenLaszlo to create a more interactive interface for your PHP applications and how to use PHP to create more dynamic OpenLaszlo applications. It requires a basic understanding of -- or willingness to learn -- XML, JavaScript, and PHP. Each is well worth knowing for its own merits, plus they plug and play together nicely, since they're all based on synergistic open standards.

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Date:  14 Mar 2006
Level:  Intermediate
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In this tutorial, you learned the basics of OpenLaszlo development by building an OpenLaszlo interface for a simple PHP application. The application includes graphics, sound, and interactivity, as well as native access of XML data. The OpenLaszlo application was rendered in your browser as a Flash movie based on the installation and configuration you did earlier in the tutorial. In Part 2, you'll expand the OpenLaszlo application so it receives data not only from a static XML file but from a PHP-based Web service, too.

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