In the last Designing with Code article, Converting Forms to Ajax, I showed you how to convert your standard web forms to Ajax by including a simple JavaScript object. In this article, I’ll show you how to handle the request on the server-side and then the response on the client-side. The example project in this article can be […]
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How to Create a Tag Cloud
In this column, I follow up Robert Hoekman’s Designing the Obvious Clinic on the new beta version of SlideShare. In his column, Robert measures the application against a few of the principles that are covered in his latest book, Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design. I pick up where Robert left off and […]
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Robert’s latest column takes a look at Google Docs & Spreadsheets. In this companion piece to his article, I’ll show you how to integrate PHP and MySQL with Ajax to create a collaboration system that could be used as the core upon which to create a more advanced application—like Google Docs. This core system would be […]
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Learn how to integrate a database with Ajax using PHP Quite a few new applications out on the web—Backpack, Blinksale, and Gmail, for example—integrate databases with AJAX. The integration can have a very powerful effect on the web application and the user experience by providing the power to communicate with the database without refreshing the […]
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