Posts in the "Ajax" Category

  • Here’s a cool use for Ajax – an active table were users can edit and add columns into a table in HTML. The ActiveTable library creates an editable HTML table from a MySQL database table. Link: AJAX ActiveTable – Jonathan Diehl’s Wiki

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  • As one man was quoted “640K of memory should be enough for anybody” no one will need to access more than 2 GB data. What happens if you – just for scientific reasons of course – try to access larger files using your 32bit hardware and your favorite programming language PHP? Read on: Handling large [...]

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  • My-Bic is an Ajax framework for PHP. It allows you to easily integrate Ajax features into your PHP applications. Let’s see how to create a feedback form with My-Bic. Installation and Setup: Download the latest version of My-Bic (v0.6.3) from http://www.litfuel.net/mybic/index.html?page=download and copy the files over a folder under the webroot of your server. You’ll [...]

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  • Yahoo’s UI Blog and Design pattern Library have interesting topics on patterns to follow while designing UI’s for Web 2.0 applications. In the old web, an action almost always followed a page reload or an intrusive Javascript pop-up, indicating that the action was complete. In the age of Ajax, how do we communicate the action [...]

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  • Snap – Ajax powered Search

    Here’s a cool new search engine powered by Ajax. They’ve got Ajax powered “suggest” features while you type, you can scroll through your results using the arrow keys on your keyboard, view result pages inline and lots more…. check out Snap. “Snap is a very different way of searching, one we suspect will take a [...]

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  • Alex Russell has coined a term for a flavour of Ajax that’s been getting more attention of late. Comet describes applications where the server keeps pushing – or streaming – data to the client, instead of having the browser keep polling the server for fresh content. Link: Software As She’s Developed – Comet: It’s Ajax [...]

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  • In the midst of all the wonderful AJAX libraries in the wild, many today still don’t understand the underlying technologies of AJAX that make it so powerful. In this article php|architect’s publisher Marco Tabini covers JSON, the magic format that makes serializing data between Javascript and other languages (often server-side) a breeze. Simplicity, velocity and [...]

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  • I’m not sure where on the hype curve we are with AJAX, but one of the open question for businesses is: why and where should you consider using AJAX? I give ten places, in declining order of urgency, where the use of AJAX should be considered. Most of this innovation will be undertaken without all [...]

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  • Here’s an interesting article on Ajax Applications and security. It won’t be long before content hijackers take over your XML data which you’re using for your Ajax applications. If data is more openly available as XML over HTTP, it’s going to be pretty damn easy for a smart hacker to get access to that data [...]

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  • A tutorial from phpmagazine.net which show you how to create an online visitor display using PHP and Ajax. “There is many techniques to track online visitors with PHP, in this example I used the most simple one. The script check the sessions online and then consider the recent ones in an interval of about 3 [...]

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