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You're reading from PHP jQuery Cookbook jQuery and PHP are the dynamic duo that will allow you to build powerful web applications. This Cookbook is the easy way in with over 60 recipes covering everything from the basics to creating plugins and integrating databases.

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2010

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849512749

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

jQuery

Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Author (1):

Joshi

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

PHP jQuery Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Handling Events with jQuery

2. Combining PHP and jQuery FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with XML Documents

4. Working with JSON

5. Working with Forms

6. Adding Visual Effects to Forms

7. Creating Cool Navigation Menus

8. Data Binding with PHP and jQuery

9. Enhancing your Site with PHP and jQuery

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Index

Fetching data from PHP using jQuery

This recipe will teach you the usage of jQuery's get method to retrieve data from a PHP script. We will see a simple example where data will be fetched from the server using the get method based on user selection from a form.

Getting ready

Create a directory named chapter2 in your web root. Put the jQuery library file in this directory. Now create another folder inside and name it as Recipe1. As a recipe can have more than one file, it is better to keep them separate.

How to do it...

Create a file index.html in the Recipe1 folder. Write the HTML code in it that will create a combo box with some options.

<html>
  <head>
    <title>jQuery.get()</title>
    <style type="text/css">
      ul{border:1px solid black; list-style:none;margin:0pt;padding:0pt;float:left;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;width:300px;}
      li{padding:10px 5px;border-bottom:1px solid black;}
    </style>
  </head&gt...