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Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional

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Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional

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Label:	Apress
Pages:	272
Binding:	Paperback
Publication Date:	2006-10-16
Published By:	Apress
ASIN:	1590596676
Category:	Book

Authors

Lee Babin

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Ajax breathes new life into web applications by transparently communicating and manipulating data in conjunction with a server-based technology. Of all the server-based technologies capable of working in conjunction with Ajax, perhaps none are more suitable than PHP, the world's most popular scripting language.

Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional is the first book to introduce how these two popular technologies can work together to create next-generation applications. Author Lee Babin covers what you commonly encounter in daily web application development tasks, and shows you how to build PHP/AJAX-enabled solutions for forms validation, file upload monitoring, database-driven information display and manipulation, web services, Google Maps integration, and more. Youll learn how to

Take advantage of PHP and advanced JavaScript capabilities to create next-generation, highly responsive Web applications.
Enhance commonplace application tasks such as forms validation and tabular data display.
Manage cross-browser issues, ensuring your applications run on all major Web browsers.
Take advantage of the Google Maps API and add spatial mapping features to your website.

Youll also be introduced to other key topics like conquering cross-platform issues, countering potential security holes, and testing and debugging JavaScript with efficiency. All examples are based on real-world scenarios, so youll be able to apply what you learn to your own development situations.

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Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional - Reviewed on 2008-10-06

1 customer found this review helpful.

This book is a waste of money. It is called beginning Ajax and PHP, but the codes are barely (if any at all) explained. Most critical parts of the codes explanation are not even paid attention to or is totally ignored, and some of the codes don't even work.

This book act as repository of bunch of codes, and that's all it is. My recommendation: save your money and just download the code from the site. You wouldn't miss anything at all, except save your money. There is nothing more than what you get from code download in this book.

It is shame, because with little efforts in explanation and care to the accuracy of the code, this book could have been a decent book.

Just download the code and study it yourself, you will do that anyway even if you buy the book.

I usually like Apress series of "From Novice to Professional" books, but this one is sure a waste of money and time.

Horrid coding - Reviewed on 2007-12-26

The samples you can download from apress are NOTHING like what the writer has written in his book. He mixes his languages in the code in the samples, then when things don't work, you can't go back to the code that you dl'ed from him, as it's nothing like the book. I had more headaches from this book than any other technical book I've ever owned.

It's unfortunate apress didn't bother to really go over this book with a fine tooth comb, or they would have noticed the simple things like using a "try" in php... then catching it.

Error filled piece of @#$@# - Reviewed on 2007-06-17

4 customers found this review helpful.

Were the editors asleep when they put this out? A couple other people commented on the errors, but still gave it a 3 star rating. They were being kind. You can't learn anything when the examples are so completely riddled with errors. Others commented on the use of the deprecated innerHTML. For $35 I expect better from an author and his publisher. This one is being returned.

Too many errors in code - Reviewed on 2007-05-07

1 customer found this review helpful.

I was excited about this book until I realized how many errors there are in the source code! It makes it very impractical to work with, too bad!!

Stephen Rider's Review is Dead On... - Reviewed on 2007-04-20

5 customers found this review helpful.

Wish I'd read the reviews more carefully before buying this book. Stephen Rider's criticisms are exactly right. I was particularly disappointed with excessive use of the innerHTML object. It's been deprecated and should not have been included in a book published in 2007. The long code examples are as Stephen says, too. At the very least, some way of highlighting the difference or addition in them to bring it to the reader's attention would have been better. I read "Head Rush Ajax" before this, and it does a much better job overall of teaching the right way to code Ajax--I was just hoping for a book with more PHP-specific coding in conjunction with Ajax.

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Book Subjects

Publishing on the Internet
World Wide Web (WWW)
Developpement
Computers
Computer - Internet
Computer Books: Web Publishing
Computers / Internet / Application Development
Computers / Programming / Software Development
Internet - Application Development
Programming Languages - General
Internet - Web Site Design
Internet - World Wide Web
Computing: Professional & Programming