Chapter 24. 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 (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), 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.

Introducing AJAX

Traditionally, one of the major limitations of JavaScript is that it couldn’t ...

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