Jan 16 2009

Easy AJAX with jQuery and PHP

AJAX has been hard to miss over the last few years, but if you still haven’t played around with it you could be missing out. If you don’t even know what it means, then it supposedly stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML – but don’t let that catch you out. It is simply a means to communicate between a user’s browser after they have loaded your page and your web server – Javascript and XML need not be involved! I’m more of a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) man myself, preferring it to XML due to its smaller footprint and closer relation to programming data structures. For this quick tip, I shall be using it along with PHP and some rather neat Javascript code made possible by the great framework jQuery. Read the rest of this entry »

Geoff Adams
Programmer, Research and Development