AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications
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Enhance the user experience of your PHP website using AJAX with this practical tutorial featuring detailed case studies Build a solid foundation for your next generation of web applicationsUse better JavaScript code to enable powerful web featuresLeverage the power of PHP and MySQL to create powerful back-end functionality and make it work in harmony with the smart AJAX clientGo through numerous case studies that demonstrate how to implement AJAX-enabled features … More >>
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I really did not find this book much use at all. After reading the first 2 chapters I suddenly realized I knew more then the guys who wrote it (and there are a few of them).
For someone who knows no Ajax or Javascript, I guess it is ok.
The major issue I had with this book is the repetition of code.
Sure, code reuses is great…in practice. But instead of saying, “Use the connection script we build in chapter X”, the book rewrites the connection script, and it is like that throughout the book.
The book is approximately 260 pages long. If you take out all the re-occurrences of the code in the book, you would be left with about 100 pages.
Another bad point for this book was…why all the code? Why not a CD with the book with all the code on, and a reference to it in the book. That way they could focus more on the design and logic and leave all the code on CD.
I found this book ill planned and boring.
Sorry writers!
Rating: 1 / 5
AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications is a well structured book with a clear layout. The design isn’t extremely stylish but as with most programming books it is very functional. The only small remark is that it would have helped if the code blocks would have a different background or marking to separate them from the text to allow a user to quickly scan over what he is about to do before entering the actual code itself. This book covers the necessary theory but it’s main focus is on building AJAX applications that use PHP, XML, JavaScript and MySQL. All in all I recommend this book to anyone who wants to build applications with AJAX and PHP.
Rating: 4 / 5
I was personally a little disappointed with some aspects of this book. While the content is good, and relatively well-written, the print quality and paper used is very poor indeed. There is so much show-through on some pages that it makes reading the code very difficult as you can see the code on the reverse page too.
As, like many developers, I run sites on servers running PHP 4, many of the examples don’t work as they’re PHP 5 specific. Not unsurprising I suppose, but it would still be beneficial to have stated this in the title.
Rating: 3 / 5
It was easy to follow the first few chapters then they expect you to already know several other subjects before you can even understand the rest. I used [...] tutorials to get through the stuff that wasn’t covered. Even after that it really didn’t dig deep enough into fancy effects associated with AJAX.
Rating: 2 / 5
AJAX and PHP by Cristian Darie, a book that takes us on a journey through a now MUST when you develop web applications. If you are developing anything on the web platform page refreshes are a thing of the past, integrating AJAX is now a standard. This book will help give you the basics on the interaction between AJAX and PHP. This book covers the nitty gritty of JavaScript and their implementations, not using a JS Framework like Prototype.
This book will give you a great background in how AJAX functions work in most of the popular frameworks and allow you to build great Web 2.0 application without the need for them. The last chapter however does talk about Drag and Drop using script.aculo.us which is built on Prototype.
Some things that can be helpful in this book however include, using the Document Object Model, DOM and CSS, Charting using SVG, and AJAX RSS Readers. Good book overall if you are looking to build apps without frameworks.
Rating: 5 / 5