| On PHPit.net today, there's this new article on using Ajax and PHP happily together - but without using the XMLHttpRequest obejct.
Ajax is one of the biggest 'discoveries' in the past year, and it has become a real buzzword, just like Web 2.0. Admittedly, Ajax can be used for a lot of things, and it really does speed up web applications.
But there is one problem with most of the current implementations of Ajax: it has one dependency, and that is the XmlHttpRequest object. [...] In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Ajax without even having to use the XmlHttpRequest object.
He starts off with a pretty basic introduction and shows you how to get the data into the current page (through the use of some PHP outputting Javascript). Then, with the help of pseudo-ajax functionality, it can poll this data to present dynamic information to the user of the site... |
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