Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

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Frank M. KromannBeginning PHP and MySQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6044-8_20

20. Integrating jQuery and PHP

Frank M. Kromann¹ 

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Aliso Viejo, CA, USA

 

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 Ajax¹ while describing advanced cutting-edge websites such as Flickr and Google had been making advances 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 ...