Ajax Starter Kit

✍ Scribed by Phil Ballard

• Publisher: Sams
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ajax Starter Kit

 

Phil Ballard

 

Everything you need to start learning Ajax today!

 

Ajax Programmer’s Toolkit

• For Windows, Mac, or Linux

Quick Start Guide

• Learn Ajax programming basics

Tutorial Reference Library

• In searchable PDF format

Plug-n-Play Code

• Source code and frameworks

 

Ajax Programmer’s Toolkit with all the technologies you need to set up an Ajax development and testing environment on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.

 

Quick Start Guide teaches you the basics of Ajax programming in 21 short, easy-to-read lessons.

 

Tutorial Reference Library with more than 1,000 pages of how-to’s on Ajax, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP in searchable PDF format.

 

Plug-n-play source code and popular Ajax framework libraries to help you reduce tedious typing and shorten

programming tasks.

 

Learn how to…

• Build better, more interactive interfaces for your web applications
• Make JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP work together to create Ajax effects
• Compile an Ajax application
• Create and consume Web services with SOAP and REST
• Avoid common errors and troubleshoot programs
• Use popular Ajax libraries to speed up and improve common programming tasks

 

On the CD…

• XAMPP for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux–an easy-to-install package to set up a PHP- and MySQL-enabled Apache server on your computer
• The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Prototype, Rico, and XOAD JavaScript and Ajax libraries
• Sams Teach Yourself tutorials on Ajax, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP in PDF format
• Source code for all the examples from the tutorials

 

All the contents of the Ajax Starter Kit CD are accessible with any web browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux:

1. Insert CD into your computer’s CD drive.

2. Navigate to the CD folder and double-click on the file named start.html.

 

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 4
Welcome to Ajax!......Page 8
Workings of the World Wide Web......Page 14
Introducing HTML......Page 20
Elements of an HTML Page......Page 22
A More Advanced HTML Page......Page 27
Some Useful HTML Tags......Page 29
Cascading Style Sheets in Two Minutes......Page 30
Introducing HTTP......Page 32
The HTTP Request and Response......Page 33
HTML Forms......Page 35
About JavaScript......Page 40
In at the Deep End......Page 42
Manipulating Data in JavaScript......Page 51
Introducing PHP......Page 54
Embedding PHP in HTML Pages......Page 55
Variables in PHP......Page 56
Controlling Program Flow......Page 58
Introducing XML......Page 60
XML Basics......Page 61
JavaScript and XML......Page 64
The Document Object Model (DOM)......Page 65
The Need for Ajax......Page 68
Introducing Ajax......Page 70
The Constituent Parts of Ajax......Page 73
Putting It All Together......Page 75
More About JavaScript Objects......Page 78
Creating the XMLHTTPRequest Object......Page 80
Sending the Server Request......Page 88
Monitoring Server Status......Page 93
The Callback Function......Page 94
The responseText and responseXML Properties......Page 98
Another Useful JavaScript DOM Property......Page 102
Parsing responseXML......Page 103
Providing User Feedback......Page 104
Constructing the Ajax Application......Page 108
The HTML Document......Page 109
Adding JavaScript......Page 110
Putting It All Together......Page 114
Getting More from the responseText Property......Page 118
Introducing AHAH......Page 126
Creating a Small Library for AHAH......Page 127
Using myAHAHlib.js......Page 129
Adding the “x” to Ajax......Page 136
The responseXML Property......Page 137
Project—An RSS Headline Reader......Page 140
Introduction to Web Services......Page 150
REST—Representational State Transfer......Page 151
Using REST in Practice......Page 153
REST and Ajax......Page 157
Introducing SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)......Page 158
The SOAP Protocol......Page 159
Using Ajax and SOAP......Page 162
Reviewing SOAP and REST......Page 163
An Ajax Library......Page 164
Reviewing myAHAHlib.js......Page 165
Implementing Our Library......Page 166
Using the Library......Page 170
Extending the Library......Page 173
The Back Button......Page 174
Bookmarking and Links......Page 175
Making Ajax Degrade Elegantly......Page 176
Pointing Out Active Page Elements......Page 177
Don’t Use Ajax Where It’s Inappropriate......Page 178
Test Code Across Multiple Platforms......Page 179
Some Programming Gotchas......Page 180
Introducing prototype.js......Page 182
Wrapping XMLHTTPRequest—the Ajax Object......Page 185
Example Project—Stock Price Reader......Page 187
Introducing Rico......Page 190
Rico’s Other Interface Tools......Page 194
Introducing XOAD......Page 200
XOAD HTML......Page 203
Advanced Programming with XOAD......Page 206
A......Page 208
D......Page 209
F......Page 210
H......Page 211
I - J......Page 212
K - L......Page 213
M......Page 214
N - O......Page 215
P......Page 216
Q - R......Page 217
S......Page 218
U - V......Page 219
X - Y - Z......Page 220