Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional by Lee Babin

Ajax breathes new life into web applications by transparently communicating and manipulating data in conjunction with a server-based technology. Of all the server-based technologies capable of working in conjunction with Ajax, perhaps none are more suitable than PHP, the world's most popular scripting language.

Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional is the first book to introduce how these two popular technologies can work together to create next-generation applications. Author Lee Babin covers what you commonly encounter in daily web application development tasks, and shows you how to build PHP/AJAX-enabled solutions for forms validation, file upload monitoring, database-driven information display and manipulation, web services, Google Maps integration, and more. You'll learn how to
Take advantage of PHP and advanced JavaScript capabilities to create next-generation, highly responsive Web applications.
Enhance commonplace application tasks such as forms validation and tabular data display.
Manage cross-browser issues, ensuring your applications run on all major Web browsers.
Take advantage of the Google Maps API and add spatial mapping features to your website.

You'll also be introduced to other key topics like conquering cross-platform issues, countering potential security holes, and testing and debugging JavaScript with efficiency. All examples are based on real-world scenarios, so you'll be able to apply what you learn to your own development situations.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #309211 in Books
Published on: 2006-10-16
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
272 pages
Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Lee Babin is a programmer based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he serves as the Chief Programmer for an innovative development firm duly named The Code Shoppe. He has been developing complex web driven applications since his graduation from DeVry University in early 2002 and has since worked on over 50 custom websites and online applications. Lee is married to a beautiful woman by the name of Dianne, who supports him in his rather full yet rewarding work schedule. He enjoys video games, working out, martial arts, and traveling, and can usually be found working online on one of his many fun web projects at any given time.While Lee has experience in a multitude of web programming languages, his preference has always been PHP. With the release of PHP 5, many of his wishes have been fulfilled.
Customer Reviews

Horrid coding
The samples you can download from apress are NOTHING like what the writer has written in his book. He mixes his languages in the code in the samples, then when things don't work, you can't go back to the code that you dl'ed from him, as it's nothing like the book. I had more headaches from this book than any other technical book I've ever owned.

It's unfortunate apress didn't bother to really go over this book with a fine tooth comb, or they would have noticed the simple things like using a "try" in php... then catching it.

Error filled piece of @#$@#
Were the editors asleep when they put this out? A couple other people commented on the errors, but still gave it a 3 star rating. They were being kind. You can't learn anything when the examples are so completely riddled with errors. Others commented on the use of the deprecated innerHTML. For $35 I expect better from an author and his publisher. This one is being returned.

Too many errors in code
I was excited about this book until I realized how many errors there are in the source code! It makes it very impractical to work with, too bad!!