by KrisHadlock (Author)
Reusable components and patterns for Ajax-driven applications
Ajax is one of the latest and greatest ways to improve users' online experience and create new and innovative web functionality. By allowing specific parts of a web page to be displayed without refreshing the entire page, Ajax significantly enhances the experience of web applications. It also lets web developers create intuitive and innovative interaction processes.
Ajax for Web Application Developers provides the in-depth working knowledge of Ajax that web developers need to take their web applications to the next level. The book shows how to create an Ajax-driven web application from an object-oriented perspective, and it includes discussion of several useful Ajax design patterns.
This detailed guide covers the creation of connections to a MySQL database with PHP 5 via a custom Ajax engine and shows how to gracefully format the response with CSS, JavaScript, and XHTML while keeping the data tightly secure. It also covers the use of four custom Ajax-enabled components in an application and how to create each of them from scratch.
The final section of the book combines the individual code examples and techniques from earlier chapters of the book into one larger, Ajax-driven application-an internal web mail application that can be used in any user-based application, such as a community-based web application. Readers will learn not only how to create and use their own reusable Ajax components in this application
but also how to connect their components to any future Ajax applications that they might build.
Web Development/Ajax/JavaScript
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Publisher: Sams Publishing
Published: 30 Oct 2006
ISBN 10: 0672329123
ISBN 13: 9780672329128
Book Overview: Ajax has gained much attention on the web and provides unique and powerful ways of dealing with data in real-time. It is bringing desktop applications to the browser by providing on demand data transfers without page refreshes and providing feedback to users in a manner that was never achievable in standard web applications. In this book, readers will learn about the technologies used to create Ajax, their importance in the process and how to create a reusable, scalable Ajax engine for professional development. They will learn how to create their own custom Ajax components that can be reused across multiple projects and connected with different data sources, such as databases, xml or other text-based files. They will also learn how to create database connections and multi-user applications while following identified design patterns, exchange data with other technologies, such as PHP and ColdFusion, and implement security into their Ajax applications for practical real world development.
Kris Hadlock
has been a contract web developer and designer since 1996. He is a featured columnist and writer for InformIT and numerous web design magazines. He is also the founder of Studio Sedition, a web application development firm, and is the cofounder of 33Inc, the company responsible for DashboardHQ. He maintains a blog called Designing with Code, which focuses on web application development from a design perspective and often features useful code snippets to help enhance web applications.You can find all of the above and more about Kris on his website at www.krishadlock.com.
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