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About the Free Online Edition
This site is designed to
give you more information about writing better PHP applications with
AJAX, and about the book AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web
Applications by Packt Publishing. This website will allow you to
view content from the book and also allow you to read through
summaries of each chapter from the book (see below), and read
through two full chapters (Chapter 1 & Chapter 5). There is also an
eBook case study 'AJAX Whiteboard' which
is available to download for free.
About the book
AJAX and PHP: Building
Responsive Web Applications is the most practical and efficient
resource a reader can get to enter the exciting world of AJAX. This
book will teach you how to create faster, lighter, better web
applications by using the AJAX ingredients technologies to their
full potential.
Assuming a basic knowledge of PHP, XML, JavaScript and MySQL, this
book will help you understand how the heart of AJAX beats and how
the constituent technologies work together. After teaching the
foundations, the book will walk you through eight real-world case
studies covering tasks you'll be likely to need for your own
applications:
- Server-enabled
form-validation page
- Online chat collaboration
tool
- Customized type-ahead text
entry solution
- Real-time charting using
SVG
- Database-enabled, editable
and customizable data grid
- RSS aggregator application
- A server-managed sortable
list with drag&drop support using the script.aculo.us
JavaScript toolkit
The appendices guide you through
installing your working environment, using powerful tools that
enable debugging, improving, and profiling your code, working with
XSLT and XPath.
About the
authors
Cristian Darie is a
software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern
technologies, and the author of numerous books, including his
popular AJAX and PHP
book by Packt, his
ASP.NET E-Commerce book, by APress and his forthcoming
SEO book for PHP developers by Wrox Press. Cristian is studying
distributed application architectures for his PhD, and is getting
involved with various commercial and research projects. When not
planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you
want to say "hi", you can reach Cristian through his personal
website at
http://www.cristiandarie.ro.
Mihai Bucica started
programming and competing in programming contests (winning many of
them), all at age twelve.With a bachelor's degree in computer
science from the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of the
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, Bucica works on
building communication software with various electronic markets.
Even after working with a multitude
of languages and technologies, Bucica's programming language of
choice remains C++, and he loves the LGPL word. Mihai also
co-authored Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce and he be contacted
through his personal website,
www.valentinbucica.ro.
Filip Cherecheş-Toşa is a web developer with a firm belief in
the future of web-based software. He started his career at the age
of 9, when he first got a Commodore 64 with tape-drive.
Back home in Romania, Filip runs a
web development company named eXigo
http://www.exigo.ro, which is actively involved in web-based
application development and web design. He is currently a student at
the University of Oradea - studying Computer Science - and also an
active member of the Romanian PHP Community
http://www.phpromania.net.
Bogdan Brinzarea has a
strong background in Computer Science holding a Master and Bachelor
Degree at the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of the
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania and also an Auditor
diploma at the Computer Science department at Ecole Polytechnique,
Paris, France.
His main interests cover a wide
area from embedded programming, distributed and mobile computing and
new web technologies. Currently, he is employed as an Alternative
Channels Specialist at Banca Romaneasca, Member of National Bank of
Greece where he is responsible for the Internet Banking project and
coordinates other projects related to security applications and new
technologies to be implemented in the banking area.
About Packt Publishing
Packt, pronounced 'packed', published its first book "Mastering
phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management" in April 2004 and
subsequently continued to specialize in publishing focused books on
specific technologies and solutions.
Packt is a modern,
unique publishing company with a focus on producing cutting-edge
books for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies
alike.
Packt's books and
publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in
adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and
frameworks. Their solutions-based books give readers the knowledge
and power to customize the software and technologies they're using
to get the job done.
Packt believes in Open Source. When they sell a book
written on an Open Source project, they pay a royalty directly to
that project. As a result of purchasing one of their open source
books, Packt will have given some of the money received to that open
source project.
For more information, please visit
www.PacktPub.com
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