Chapter 25. AJAX: Remote Scripting
What You’ll Learn in This Chapter:
▸ How AJAX enables JavaScript to communicate with server-side programs and files
▸ Using the XMLHttpRequest object’s properties and methods
▸ Creating your own AJAX library
▸ Using AJAX to read data from an XML file
▸ Debugging AJAX applications
▸ Using AJAX to communicate with a PHP program
Remote scripting, also known as AJAX, is a browser feature that enables JavaScript to escape its client-side boundaries and work with files on a web server or with server-side programs. In this chapter, you’ll learn how AJAX works and create two working examples of client-side to server-side interactivity using AJAX requests.
Introducing AJAX
Traditionally, one of the major limitations ...
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