Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional Fourth Edition

Chapter 22. Creating Ajax-enhanced Features with jQuery and PHP

For years, web developers complained about the inability to create sophisticated, responsive interfaces resembling anything like those found within desktop applications. That all began to change in 2005, when user experience guru Jesse James Garrett coined the term Ajax^[3] while describing advances cutting-edge websites such as Flickr and Google had been making that closed the gap between web interfaces and their client-based brethren. These advances involved taking advantage of the browser's ability to asynchronously communicate with a server—without requiring the web page to reload. Used in conjunction with JavaScript's ability to inspect and manipulate practically every aspect ...