Ajax:Basic Utilities

In this article, we will learn how to build the basic Ajax forms. We will try to understand where we can use Ajax methodology and where we can't. There are a lot of ways in which we can use Ajax. Here are some "best" practices based on user experience and the performance of the specific system. Ajax makes our lives easier, faster, and better; how and where to use it is up to us.

In this article, we will cover the following topics:

• Validating a form using Ajax
• Creating an autosuggest control
• Making form wizards
• Uploading a file using Ajax
• Creating a five star rating system

• FAQs on YUI [Article]
• AJAX Form Validation: Part 1 [Article]
• Enhancing your Site with PHP and jQuery [Article]

Ajax: Basic Utilities

In this article by Milan Sedliak, author of PHP Ajax we will learn how to build the basic Ajax forms. We will try to understand where we can use Ajax methodology and where we can't. There are a lot of ways in which we can use Ajax. Here are some "best" practices based on user experience and the performance of the specific system. Ajax makes our lives easier, faster, and better; how and where to use it is up to us.

In this article, we will cover the following topics:

• Validating a form using Ajax
• Creating an autosuggest control
• Making form wizards
• Uploading a file using Ajax
• Creating a five star rating system

AJAX Implementation in APEX

This article by Arie Geller and Matthew Lyon, authors of the book Oracle Application Express 3.2 – The Essentials and More, looks at how we can utilize the APEX AJAX framework, both on the client and server side, to integrate and support this important technology in our APEX applications.

AJAX Form Validation: Part 1

In this two-part article by Audra Hendrix, Bogdan Brinzarea and Cristian Darie, authors of AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications 2nd Edition, we will create a form validation application that implements traditional techniques with added AJAX flavor, thereby making the form more user-friendly, responsive, and pleasing. In the AJAX world, entered data is validated on the fly, so the users are never confronted with waiting for full-page reloads or the rude "blank form" as a reply.

AJAX Chat Implementation: Part 1

In this article by Bogdan Brinzarea and Cristian Darie, we will discuss about AJAX Chat implementation in detail.

AJAX / Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms

AJAX—it's the buzzword that hit the Web with a bullet in 2005, thanks to Jesse James Garrett, a user-experience expert who founded AdaptivePath.com. If you're totally new to AJAX, I'll just point out that; at its core, AJAX is nothing that scary or horrendous. AJAX isn't even a new technology or language!

In this article by Tessa Blakeley Silver, we're going to take a look at the most popular methods to get going with AJAX in WordPress using plug-ins and widgets to help you include dynamic self-updating content and create interactive forms in your WordPress site. While we're at it, we'll also look at some cool JavaScript toolkits, libraries, and scripts you can use to appear 'Ajaxy'.

Agile with Yii 1.1 and PHP5: The TrackStar Application

In order to understand the framework in the context of a real-world application, we need to build something that will more closely resemble the types of applications web developers actually have to build. That is exactly what we are going to be doing.

In this article by Jeffery Winesett, author of Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5, we introduce the project task tracking application called TrackStar. There are many other project management and issue tracking applications out there in the world, and the basic functionality of ours will not be any different from many of these. So why build it, you ask? It turns out that this type of user-based application has many features that are common to a great many web applications out there. This will allow us to achieve two primary goals:

• Showcase Yii's incredible utility and feature set as we build useful functionality and conquer real-world web application challenges
• Provide real-world examples and approaches that will be immediately applicable to your next web application project

Aggregate Services in ServiceMix JBI ESB

Integration is a necessary evil using which we can interconnect systems, applications and services to facilitate seamless information flow within and across Organization boundaries. We have been using technologies like JSP, EJB, JMS, etc. in the Java world for building Enterprise Applications (EA). But if we have to interconnect such applications, we will need Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Many a times we also use EA technologies and tools to do EAI. This will give a short term solution to our integration problems, which may not scale up when we want to perform integration at Enterprise (Customers, Vendors, Partners, ...) level. Java Business Integration (JBI) is the new specification trying to fill this gap of EAI in the Java world. So next time when you want to integrate, don't write a single line of Java code, instead plug and assemble JBI based integration libraries to control your message flow! Does it looks promising? Believe it or read the article below to get yourself convinced.

In this article by Binildas Christudas, we will look into Integration in general and to JBI and ESB in particular. We will then explain few functionalities usually done by integration components like protocol conversions, content transformations, etc., with some code snippets too.

Advanced WordPress Themes

In this article by Lee Jordan and Nick Ohrn, authors of the book WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook, we will cover:

• Adding a theme options page
• Allowing for multiple theme color schemes
• Changing the default Gravatar icon for your theme