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PHP & AJAX Presentation Online

Posted by timothy on from the bend-it-to-your-will dept.

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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  1. Re:Most likely the... by vcv · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And it can save a LOT of bandwidth. However, writing for it is currently a nightmare for the most part.

  2. Re:What is this... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After reading the article, it sounds like they are using a Javascript processor on the client side instead of using a PHP processor on the server side. Whether you use AJAX is really dependent on whether you believe processing should be done on the server, client or both. This is more alphabet soup. I'll stick with PHP on the server and Javascript on the client for now.

  3. Re:object oriented programming in javascript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh yes, JS is actually a *really* cool language, right up there with the "academic" languages. In fact it's very much like Self, which is a prototype-based language. A single concept implemented cleanly from top to bottom.

    Somewhere on there net there's a JS program which makes JS work like Ruby (blocks, iterators, etc).

    Too bad JS is trapped in the browser like that, having to deal with the outside world via DOMs and documents and junk like that.

  4. Re:Doing this for years now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    I've been using this technique for years - since 1998 I believe. The first application that I used it on was a kiosk. The kiosk application was done using IE and some ActiveX controls to read magcard from a reader and print to a serial port. Well, every time the page loaded, these ActiveX controls would take an eternity to init the serials ports and so on. So I put all that code into another hidden frame and used this hidden frame to control the display frame. Works great.

    So except for the lack of XML or remote server calls that was just like AJAX?

  5. For the love of all that's holy by weeksie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For the love of all that's holy and good can we please stop calling it Ajax? It's one bloody JavaScript object. Great that it's being used more often, good on Google for getting it out there and popular but it just doesn't do the technology any good to overhype it. If we are going to call it something cute it should be Greasemonkey because monkeys and grease are cool.

    In any case I've built a greasy little forum app that uses the shit out of XmlHttpRequest and it doesn't really require any special toolkits. It's just a matter of making calls to the server with JavaScript and using the response to populate your page (generally with .innerHTML = whatever). World changing or not it's more fun than a car full of fat people

    Check it out if you like http://beta.twelvestone.com/forum