http://devreview.com/book-ajax-and-php/ Web development resource reviews and news Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:56:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://devreview.com/book-ajax-and-php/#comment-5 erniel Mon, 28 May 2007 23:57:11 +0000 http://devreview.com/book-ajax-and-php/#comment-5 The AJAX buzz is still going strong, and given so many sites use PHP as their backend it seems a natural fit for the 2 to go together. This book is aimed at developers who already have some programming experience, although that doesn not mean you need to be a javascript or php guru. The first three chapters give a backgound on the technologies are their possible uses (and misuses). Chapters 4 - 10 bring them together using a mini app per chapter, that brings out particular functionalities. I liked the pace of the book. Readers are not treated like idiots or expected to be geniuses who pick up new concepts at first meeting. Sometimes I think they might have gone into greater depth, but there are a number of links in the book to other resources and information. A good touch is that one of the chapters (no 5) has been updated to use JSON instead of XML. This is available for download. One minor thing that did annoy me was pages and pages of code. Unnecessary has the full code is available for download on the web. Overall a very good, well targeted book which intermediate programmers+ and non php/js programmers will definitely get something out of. The AJAX buzz is still going strong, and given so many sites use PHP as their backend it seems a natural fit for the 2 to go together. This book is aimed at developers who already have some programming experience, although that doesn not mean you need to be a javascript or php guru.
The first three chapters give a backgound on the technologies are their possible uses (and misuses). Chapters 4 - 10 bring them together using a mini app per chapter, that brings out particular functionalities.
I liked the pace of the book. Readers are not treated like idiots or expected to be geniuses who pick up new concepts at first meeting. Sometimes I think they might have gone into greater depth, but there are a number of links in the book to other resources and information.
A good touch is that one of the chapters (no 5) has been updated to use JSON instead of XML. This is available for download. One minor thing that did annoy me was pages and pages of code. Unnecessary has the full code is available for download on the web.
Overall a very good, well targeted book which intermediate programmers+ and non php/js programmers will definitely get something out of.

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