April 2007
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
12h 52m
English
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Chapter 7
Using Server-Side Ajax Frameworks
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Using the Sajax framework
- Using the Xajax framework
- Using the LibAjax framework
- Using the Direct Web Remoting framework
- Using the Ajax Tags framework
- Using the SWATO framework
- Working with Ajax and Ruby on Rails
Besides the client-side Ajax frameworks you've seen in the previous two chapters, there are a number of server-side Ajax frameworks as well, and this chapter is about them.
Server-side Ajax frameworks make life easier for you by helping with both the server-side programming and the client-side programming of an Ajax application. They can generate the JavaScript you'll need in the browser automatically. For example, all you need to do is write your server-side code — the framework does the rest.
Server-side Ajax frameworks are available in many different languages. Perhaps the most popular is the server-side scripting language PHP, so this chapter starts with a discussion of PHP-based server-side frameworks. You'll also see Java-based server-side frameworks as well as Ruby on Rails frameworks in this chapter.
Working with PHP-Based Frameworks
One of the most popular server-side scripting languages is PHP. It is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded in to HTML.
Using Sajax and PHP
Sajax is a server-side Ajax framework that lets you create the JavaScript needed in an Ajax application on the server. All you need is server-side code, which can be in many different programming languages, including ...
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