Teach Yourself Ajax in 10 Minutes

Phil Ballard is a professional web consultant specializing in website and intranet design, search engine optimization, server-side scripting, client-side design and programming and hosting. Phil has written a number of online tutorials, including the most popular of late, on AJAX.

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Introduction    1

PART I    A Refresher on Web Technologies

1    Anatomy of a Website    5

2    Writing Web Pages in HTML    13

3    Sending Requests Using HTTP    27

4    Client-Side Coding Using JavaScript    36

5    Server-Side Programming in PHP    53

6    A Brief Introduction to XML    61

PART II    Introducing Ajax

7    Anatomy of an Ajax Application    70

8    The XMLHTTPRequest Object    80

9    Talking with the Server    91

10   Using the Returned Data    102

11   Our First Ajax Application    112

PART III    More Complex Ajax Technologies

12    Returning Data as Text    123

13    AHAH--Asynchronous HTML and HTTP    131

14    Returning Data as XML    142

15    Web Services and the REST Protocol    157

16    Web Services Using SOAP    166

17    A JavaScript Library for Ajax    173

18    Ajax "Gotchas"    184

PART IV    Commercial and Open Source Ajax Resources

19    The prototype.js Toolkit    193

20    Using Rico    203

21    Using ZOAD    215

        Index    224

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