- Covers all of the aspects of implementing Ajax using JavaScript, PHP, and mySQL.
- A step by step approach to adding Ajax the right way.
- Uses a 'real life' example project.
- Practical uses for Ajax.
- Uses valid strict but not semantically correct HTML.
- ore knowledge of JavaScript, PHP, and mySQL is required than the back cover suggests
- No description of the project objectives at the start of the book.
- First Edition: Published 2008
- 155 page paperback
- Published by Peachpit Press
- ISBN 0-321-52441-6
- A Visual Quick Project
- Author Larry Ullman
This book takes a completely different approach to teaching Ajax from any of the others I have seen. Instead of concentrating on the JavaScript commands that are required to set up Ajax calls and/or providing dozens of trivial and pointless examples of what can be done with Ajax, this book covers one reasonably significant project that uses Ajax in a practical way.
The selected project provides a good example of how a particular web application can be enhanced by adding Ajax functionality. It doesn't just cover the Ajax part though but instead takes you step by step through the entire process of creating an Ajax enabled application showing you the correct way to build such an application. While your projects will obviously differe from the one in this book, it will still require equivalent steps to those shown.
The only thing really wrong with the book is that it dives straight in to creating the application. A specification of what the project requirements and objectives are at the start of the book would have made the book a lot more useful as you would then be able to see how the practical steps presented contribute toward the final goal.
