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Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Web 2.0 Applications ,that helps users build user friendly Web 2.0 Applications with JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and jQuery . Written by Audra Hendrix, Bogdan Brinzarea and Cristian Darie, AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications 2nd Edition is a friendly tutorial, enhancing the user experience of a PHP website using AJAX, thereby creating faster and better web applications.

Ajax is a group of interrelated web development techniques, used on the client-side to create interactive web applications that retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. PHP is a scripting language designed for web development and to produce dynamic web pages. AJAX enables interactive interfaces that can replace traditional user interfaces and enhance the user experience of PHP websites.

Readers will learn how to write unobtrusive AJAX code and also to debug them using modern tools through this book. This book provides a complete case study of AJAX Form Validation, AJAX Online Chat and AJAX Editable DataGrid with jQuery, thereby combining client-side and server-side functionality to enhance the user experience of the site using AJAX. Advanced AJAX and PHP patterns and techniques such as predictive fetching, progress indicator, graceful degradation, and cross-domain calls are thoroughly discussed in this book.