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Using Ajax with PHP and Sajax

How the Simple Ajax Toolkit can integrate your server-side PHP with JavaScript

Tyler Anderson (tyleranderson5@yahoo.com), Freelance Writer, Stexar Corp.

Tyler Anderson graduated with a degree in computer science from Brigham Young University in 2004 and is currently in his last semester as a master's student in computer engineering. In the past, he worked as a database programmer for DPMG.com, and he is currently an engineer for Stexar Corp., based in Beaverton, Ore.

Summary: For years, the goal of creating a truly responsive Web application was hampered by one simple fact of Web development: To change the information on part of a page, a user must reload the entire page. Not anymore. Thanks to asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), we can now request new content from the server and change just part of a page. This tutorial explains how to use Ajax with PHP and introduces the Simple Ajax Toolkit (Sajax), a tool written in PHP that lets you integrate server-side PHP with JavaScript that makes this work.

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Date: 05 Jul 2006 (Published 18 Oct 2005)
Level: Intermediate
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See "Ajax and scripting Web services with E4X, Part 1" for an introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X), a simple extension to JavaScript that simplifies XML scripting.
See "Ajax and scripting Web services with E4X, Part 2" to learn how to use E4X to build the server side and implement simple Web services in JavaScript.
Learn the concepts behind Ajax and the fundamental steps to creating an Ajax interface for a Java-based Web application in "Ajax for Java developers: Build dynamic Java applications."
Read Sam Ruby's Ajax considered harmful blog to learn more about the GET vs. POST issue and the importance of encoding in UTF-8.
Read this basic how to use CSS tutorial.
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The table of ASCII codes is helpful.
See this handy UTF-8 encoding reference for ASCII-compatible multibyte Unicode encoding.
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