The Definitive Guide to symfony

Chapter 11. Ajax Integration

Interactions on the client side, complex visual effects, and asynchronous communication are common in Web 2.0 applications. All those require JavaScript, but coding it by hand is often cumbersome and time-consuming to debug. Fortunately, symfony automates many of the common uses of JavaScript in the templates with a complete set of helpers. Many of the client-side behaviors can even be coded without a single line of JavaScript. Developers only need to worry about the effect they want to achieve, and symfony will deal with complex syntax and compatibility issues.

This chapter describes the tools provided by symfony to facilitate client-side scripting:

• Basic JavaScript helpers output standards-compliant <script> tags in ...