AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications电子书

AJAX and PHP

Table of Contents

AJAX and PHP

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

Preface

What This Book Covers

What You Need for This Book

Conventions

Reader Feedback

Customer Support

Downloading the Example Code for the Book

Errata

Questions

1. AJAX and the Future of Web Applications

Delivering Functionality via the Web

Advantages of Web Applications

Building Websites Since 1990

HTTP and HTML

PHP and Other Server-Side Technologies

JavaScript and Other Client-Side Technologies

What’s Been Missing?

Understanding AJAX

Building a Simple Application with AJAX and PHP

Time for Action—Quickstart AJAX

What Just Happened?

Summary

2. Client-Side Techniques with Smarter JavaScript

JavaScript and the Document Object Model

Time for Action—Playing with JavaScript and the DOM

What Just Happened?

JavaScript Events and the DOM

Time for Action—Using JavaScript Events and the DOM

What Just Happened?

Even More DOM

Time for Action—Even More DOM

What Just Happened?

JavaScript, DOM, and CSS

Time for Action—Working with CSS and JavaScript

What Just Happened?

Using the XMLHttpRequest Object

Creating the XMLHttpRequest Object

Creating Better Objects for Internet Explorer

Initiating Server Requests Using XMLHttpRequest

Handling Server Response

Time for Action—Making Asynchronous Calls with XMLHttpRequest

What Just Happened?

Working with XML Structures

Time for Action—Making Asynchronous Calls with XMLHttpRequest and XML

What Just Happened?

Handling More Errors and Throwing Exceptions

Creating XML Structures

Summary

3. Server-Side Techniqueswith PHP and MySQL

PHP and DOM

Time for Action—Doing AJAX with PHP

What Just Happened?

Passing Parameters and Handling PHP Errors

Time for Action—Passing PHP Parameters and Error Handling

What Just Happened?

Connecting to Remote Servers and JavaScript Security

Time for Action—Connecting to Remote Servers

What Just Happened?

Using a Proxy Server Script

Time for Action—Using a Proxy Server Script to Access Remote Servers

What Just Happened?

A Framework for Making Repetitive Asynchronous Requests

Time for Action—Implementing Repetitive Tasks

What Just Happened?

Working with MySQL

Creating Database Tables

Manipulating Data

Connecting to Your Database and Executing Queries

Time for Action—Working with PHP and MySQL

What Just Happened?

Wrapping Things Up and Laying Out the Structure

Time for Action—Building the Friendly Application

What Just Happened?

Summary

4. AJAX Form Validation

Implementing AJAX Form Validation

Thread-Safe AJAX

Time for Action—AJAX Form Validation

What Just Happened?

Summary

5. AJAX Chat

Introducing AJAX Chat

AJAX Chat Solutions

Implementing AJAX Chat

Time for Action—Ajax Chat

What just happened?

Summary

6. AJAX Suggest and Autocomplete

Introducing AJAX Suggest and Autocomplete

Google Suggest

Implementing AJAX Suggest and Autocomplete

Time for Action—;AJAX Suggest and Autocomplete

What Just Happened?

Summary

7. AJAX Real-Time Charting with SVG

Implementing a Real-Time Chart with AJAX and SVG

Time for Action—Building the Real-Time SVG Chart

What Just Happened?

Summary

8. AJAX Grid

Implementing the AJAX Grid Using Client-Side XSLT

Time for Action—AJAX Grid

What Just Happened?

Summary

9. AJAX RSS Reader

Working with RSS

The RSS Document Structure

Google Reader

Implementing the AJAX RSS Reader

Time for Action—Building the RSS Reader Application

What Just Happened?

Summary

10. AJAX Drag and Drop

Using Drag and Drop on the Web

Shopping Carts

Sortable Lists

Building the AJAX Drag-and-Drop Sortable List Application

Time for Action—Task Management Application with AJAX

What Just Happened?

Summary

A. Preparing Your Working Environment

Preparing Your Windows Playground

Installing Apache

Installing MySQL

Installing PHP

Preparing Your *nix Playground

Installing Apache

Installing MySQL

Installing PHP

Installing phpMyAdmin

Preparing the AJAX Database

Index