Book description
Supercharge Your Sites with Ajax Right Now...No Scripting Expertise Needed!
You’ve heard how great Ajax is--how it can help make your Web sites more usable, more interactive, more responsive, more successful. Ajax Construction Kit lets you put Ajax to work right now, even if you’ve never written a script! Just learn a few essentials, check out a few examples, then run the live CD and discover all the plug-and-play code you need to hit the ground running. Ajax Construction Kit’s built-in applications work right out of the box. And with easy guidance from Michael Morrison, you’ll gradually deepen your understanding--learn how to customize, extend, and reuse these applications---and even build skills for creating new ones. Walk away an expert.
Use Ajax Construction Kit’s ten complete applications to
Dynamically load Web data
Dynamically populate lists
Tap into RSS news feeds
Use AutoComplete to reduce input errors
Create more responsive GUIs with real-time validation
Build a killer interface for viewing images
Present information or advertising with slick pop-ups
Provide an up-to-the-minute weather forecast
Build an e-commerce product shipping calculator
Add ratings tools to your site
And more...
CD-ROM Includes
Your complete Ajax projects: Run the Ajax projects (HTML, JavaScript, and PHP source code) that are included on the CD from your Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system.
Your complete Ajax environment: Boot the CD as an Ubuntu Linux live CD to immediately begin working with the Ajax projects (no setup required).
Ready-to-run tools on the CD include the XAMPP Web server, Firefox Web browser, and Bluefish HTML editor.
System Requirements:
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac (OS X or higher)
Processor: Intel-based processor (Pentium or higher)
Memory: 128 MB RAM or more
Disk space: None required; USB thumb drive optional to store data
Optical drive: CD reader
Negus Live Linux Series
Your Practical, Hands-On Guides to Getting Real Results with Free Software
Add the free software and examples from the book’s CD to your Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system to follow along with the projects described in the book. Or boot the CD directly to use a complete, prepackaged set of free software tools to play, display, and modify those projects. Start as a novice, by trying out examples...and finish with professional Ajax-enabled Web content!
SERIES EDITOR CHRISTOPHER NEGUS is the bestselling author of the Red Hat Linux Bible series, Linux Toys series, and this series’ flagship title, Linux Live CDs.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Negus Live Linux Series
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- I. Ajax Boot Camp
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II. Building Real-World Ajax Applications
- 3. Dynamically Loading Web Data: An XML E-Book Viewer
- 4. Using Ajax to Dynamically Populate Lists: A Stock Picker
- 5. Tapping into RSS News Feeds
- 6. Reading the User’s Mind with Auto-Complete
- 7. Creating Responsive GUIs with Real-Time Validation
- 8. A Killer Interface for Image Viewing
- 9. Presenting Information with Slick Popups
- 10. Forecasting the Weather with Ajax
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11. Building an Ajax Shipping Calculator
- The Challenge: Retrieving Live Shipping Charges
- The Design: Designing a Shipper Application
- The Client Request
- The Server Response
- Making Sense of the Client-to-Server Conversation
- Putting Together the Shipper Application
- The Shipper Web Page
- The Shipper Server Script
- Testing Shipper
- Giving Shipper an Extreme Ajax Makeover
- Summary
- 12. Adding an Ajax-Powered Rating System to Your Site
- III. Appendices
Product information
- Title: Negus Live Linux Series Ajax Construction Kit: Building Plug-and-Play Ajax Applications
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2007
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780132350082
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