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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.

Date:  05 Jul 2006 (Published 18 Oct 2005)
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (328 KB | 24 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Congratulations! You created an Ajax application in PHP and integrated it with Sajax successfully. Your application will save those that use it -- and your future asynchronous JavaScript applications -- a lot of bandwidth and time waiting for pages to load because the entire Web page will not have to load on each click, only the necessary content. This enables you to create rich interactive applications that will become more common.

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