Zend Developer Zone: Ajax Chat Tutorial
This tutorial is a step by step introduction to creating a lightweight chat application using XML as a storage medium. As personal motivation, I develop PHP games as a hobby. In pursuit of that hobby I’ve found that offering a flat threadless forum in such games tends to result in heavy usage as players attempt [...]
Developer Works: Generate Flash movies on the fly with PHP
Rich Internet Applications is the new buzz-phrase for Web 2.0, and a key component of the substance behind Web 2.0 is Adobe Flash. Learn how to integrate Flash movies into your application and generate Flash movies dynamically using the Ming library.
Web 2.0 promises Rich Internet Applications. But what does Rich Internet Applications mean? In general, [...]
Developer.com: Developing a Ajax-driven Shopping Cart with PHP and Prototype
On Developer.com, Jason Gilmore has posted This new tutorial that steps you through the creation of an ajax-enabled shopping cart that combines PHP and Prototype.
In the latest installment of this ongoing PHP series, I’ll show you how to build a shopping cart using PHP, session handling, and the Prototype JavaScript library (introduced in an earlier [...]
Get On Track with Ruby on Rails
Ruby? Rails? Ajax? Is this cluster of confusing buzzwords swarming around your head like a mob of angry bees? Then fear not, gentle padawan — Jedi help is at hand! For I, too, was just like you once: confused, jumping at shadows, sinking into the depths of yet another custom Python web framework while softly [...]
PHPBuilder.com: Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional
PHPBuilder.com has another in a series of book excerpts posted on their site today. This time, it’s a look at Ajax and PHP as pulled from the Apress book “Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional”.
The ability to make a call to the server without a page refresh is one that is quite powerful, [...]
The Shrek Model of Web Design
Websites are like onions, you see, since websites have layers.
And ogres are like onions, since ogres have layers.
Websites are designed by web designers. Ergo – web designers are like ogres.
So, let’s explore why web designers are like ogres.
Firstly, let’s see why we say that websites are like onions, with layers, in the first place since [...]
php|architect: November 2006 Issue Released
The latest edition of php|architect magazine has been published – the November 2006 issue. Articles included in this month’s edition include:
“Services made simple with PHP” – Caroline Maynard, Graham Charters, Matthew Peters, Megan Beynon, and Simon Laws
“Tune Your Search Results With Ajax” – Will Fitch and Greg Black
“Synchronizing the World” – Sherman Lilly
“Learning from Ruby [...]
