PHP & AJAX Presentation Online

the.admin.man writes "There's been quite a bit of buzz around using PHP as a backend to AJAX-based web applications (the same development methodology on which some Google applications), lately, particularly after the release of JPSpan, a framework that helps building XML-based interfaces between Javascript and PHP apps. Just yesterday, Joshua Eichorn gave a presentation to the Arizona PHP Group on developing AJAX applications for PHP--he's posted the slides online, and will give his presentation again through a free webcast hosted by php|architect."

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Use the library that Rails uses.

[Paradox]

It's called Prototype, and it's available right here.

It's very well written, gets a lot of maintenance, and even has some eye candy as a bonus.