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Summary: Practical Advice
Comment: Enjoyed this book. The authors clearly understand their subject and provide useful workable code that can be used as a basis for your own projects.
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Summary: Great layout and easy to undertand for noobs and pros!
Comment: This is my second AJAX/PHP book and I must say this one is excellent. The author gives the reader not only great examples, but then reexamines the code to let the reader how and why each block is needed and what purpose it serves.
This is my first read from the publisher, Packt, but if the other books are laid out like this I'll give them a go.
So should you buy it? I would say you definitely need a basic understanding of PHP and an Intermediate understanding of JavaScript to get through this book with a smile.
Highly recommended.
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Summary: I wish there was more on the capabilities of PHP.
Comment: First off I'm fairly new to web programming (Javascript and PHP) but I didn't find much to broaden my knowledge with this book. Ajax Javascript is covered extremely well elsewhere ("Pragmatic Ajax", "Ajax in Action" and "Ajax Design Patterns" for instance) and is PHP programming ("PHP and MySQL Web Development" and "Advanced PHP Programming").
The book is not complete enough to serve as an introduction to Javascript or PHP. It really doesn't seem to cover the issues with distributed asynchronous programming either.
There is a huge need for a book that concentrates on building solid asynchronous servers with PHP. For instance how can state be carried from server call to server call (PHP session management?). What happens if multiple XML requests are sent while a PHP script is running? Can a single instance handle multiple requests without restarting from the beginning? How can a long running PHP program (yes you need to change the server time out) handle streams of data to and from Javascript?
My suggestions for the next edition are:
1) More on server side patterns (PHP) for AJAX
2) Session management
3) remote RPC techniques
4) JSON servers (techniques like phpolait?)
5) Talk through the code examples more.
I found the code in the book to be the hardest to read through and at the same time the most boring of any programming book I've ever read.
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Summary: Informative
Comment: This is a great book that discusses the frameworks and relations that PHP and AJAX use to provide dynamic applications. This book goes through the various methods to get the client side to talk with the server with out page refreshes and the tools that speed up the development process. This book has a lot of code examples of working projects that can be used in your own development projects.
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Summary: well written
Comment: I have a number of years experience with php,dhtml,javascript and css and this book has some excellent examples that are well written and each builds on the last example with more and deeper details. I only wish there was more examples as the authors did such a great job with the ones presented. great job all!
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