Book Description
Ajax Starter Kit – Phil Ballard. Everything you need to start learning Ajax today!
Ajax Programmer’s Toolkit with all the technologies you need to set up an Ajax development and testing environment on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.
Quick Start Guide teaches you the basics of Ajax programming in 21 short, easy-to-read lessons.
Tutorial Reference Library with more than 1,000 pages of how-to’s on Ajax, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP in searchable PDF format.
Plug-n-play source code and popular Ajax framework libraries to help you reduce tedious typing and shorten programming tasks.
Learn how to…
Build better, more interactive interfaces for your web applications
Make JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP work together to create Ajax effects
Compile an Ajax application
Create and consume Web services with SOAP and RESTAvoid common errors and troubleshoot programs
Use popular Ajax libraries to speed up and improve common programming tasks
On the CD…
XAMPP for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux–an easy-to-install package to set up a PHP- and MySQL-enabled Apache server on your computer
The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Prototype, Rico, and XOAD JavaScript and Ajax libraries
Sams Teach Yourself tutorials on Ajax, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP in PDF format
Source code for all the examples from the tutorials
All the contents of the Ajax Starter Kit CD are accessible with any web browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux:
1. Insert CD into your computer’s CD drive.
2. Navigate to the CD folder and double-click on the file named start.html.
