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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. What is this... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I got this crazy idea about becoming a web developer and I been learning all the individual technologies to put stuff together. But it seems like I'm missing the grand overview something that would tie everything together. Is AJAX the silver bullet I can use to build all those awesome Google-like websites? Or is it more alphabet soup that I'll probably end up throwing out later after I bought all the overpriced books?

    1. Re:What is this... by Zachary+Kessin · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Yes, actually not only have I implemented it, I've built a toolkit to automate it. (I hate doing boring reptative work). The XAB toolkit can build an Ajax based database application (or at least most of one) for you with automaticly generated PHP, XML and Javascript. It uses Mozilla's SOAPCall functionality so for right now it won't work in IE, but I expect to fix that at some point.

      There is also a program in there to take a PHP class and automaticly generate javascript code to wrap it.

      I have also set up an Ajax Wiki.

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      Erlang Developer and podcaster