Ajax Construction Kit: Building Plug-and-Play Ajax Applications (Paperback)

Description

Supercharge Your Sites with Ajax Right Now...No Scripting Expertise Needed!

You’ve heard how great Ajax is--how it can help make your Web sites more usable, more interactive, more responsive, more successful. Ajax Construction Kit lets you put Ajax to work right now, even if you’ve never written a script! Just learn a few essentials, check out a few examples, then run the live CD and discover all the plug-and-play code you need to hit the ground running. Ajax Construction Kit’s built-in applications work right out of the box. And with easy guidance from Michael Morrison, you’ll gradually deepen your understanding--learn how to customize, extend, and reuse these applications--and even build skills for creating new ones. Walk away an expert.

 

Use Ajax Construction Kit’s ten complete applications to

• Dynamically load Web data
• Dynamically populate lists
• Tap into RSS news feeds
• Use AutoComplete to reduce input errors
• Create more responsive GUIs with real-time validation
• Build a killer interface for viewing images
• Present information or advertising with slick pop-ups
• Provide an up-to-the-minute weather forecast
• Build an e-commerce product shipping calculator
• Add ratings tools to your site

And more...

 

CD-ROM Includes

• Your complete Ajax projects: Run the Ajax projects (HTML, JavaScript, and PHP source code) that are included on the CD from your Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system.
• Your complete Ajax environment: Boot the CD as an Ubuntu Linux live CD to immediately begin working with the Ajax projects (no setup required).
• Ready-to-run tools on the CD include the XAMPP Web server, Firefox Web browser, and Bluefish HTML editor.

System Requirements:

• Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac (OS X or higher)
• Processor: Intel-based processor (Pentium or higher)
• Memory: 128 MB RAM or more
• Disk space: None required; USB thumb drive optional to store data
• Optical drive: CD reader

Negus Live Linux Series

Your Practical, Hands-On Guides to Getting Real Results with Free Software

Add the free software and examples from the book’s CD to your Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system to follow along with the projects described in the book. Or boot the CD directly to use a complete, prepackaged set of free software tools to play, display, and modify those projects. Start as a novice, by trying out examples...and finish with professional Ajax-enabled Web content!

 

SERIES EDITOR CHRISTOPHER NEGUS is the bestselling author of the Red Hat Linux Bible series, Linux Toys series, and this series’s flagship title, Linux Live CDs.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I    Ajax Boot Camp

1          Ajax and a Brave New World Wide Web 9

2          Inside an Ajax Application 25

Part II    Building Real-World Ajax Applications

3          Dynamically Loading Web Data: An XML E-Book Viewer 49

4          Using Ajax to Dynamically Populate Lists: A Stock Picker 75

5          Tapping into RSS News Feeds 97

6          Reading the User's Mind with Auto-Complete 121

7          Creating Responsive GUIs with Real-Time Validation 139

8          A Killer Interface for Image Viewing 159

9          Presenting Information with Slick Popups 171

10         Forecasting the Weather with Ajax 189

11         Building an Ajax Shipping Calculator 205

12         Adding an Ajax-Powered Rating System to Your Site 231

Part III    Appendices

Appendix A      The Past, Present, and Future of Ajax 257

Appendix B      A Quick and Dirty XMLHttpRequest Reference 261

Appendix C     Using the Live Linux CD 271

描述

立即使用 Ajax 強化您的網站...無需腳本專業知識！

您已經聽說過 Ajax 的優點了──它可以使您的網站更易用、更互動、更具回應性、更成功。即使您從未寫過腳本，Ajax Construction Kit 讓您立即開始使用 Ajax！只需學習一些基本知識，查看一些範例，然後運行這張光碟，發現您需要的即插即用代碼，立即開始工作。 Ajax Construction Kit 內置的應用程式可以立即使用。在 Michael Morrison 的指導下，您將逐漸加深對 Ajax 的理解──學習如何自定義、擴展和重用這些應用程式──甚至還可以建立創建新應用程式的技能。成為一名專家。

 

使用 Ajax Construction Kit 的十個完整應用程式：

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  動態加載網頁數據
  
  


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  動態填充列表
  
  


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  使用 RSS 新聞源
  
  


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  使用自動完成功能減少輸入錯誤
  
  


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  使用實時驗證創建更具回應性的 GUI
  
  


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  為查看圖片建立出色的界面
  
  


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  使用時髦的彈出窗口呈現信息或廣告
  
  


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  提供最新的天氣預報
  
  


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  建立電子商務產品運費計算器
  
  


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  為您的網站添加評分工具
  
  

還有更多...

 

CD-ROM 包括

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  您的完整 Ajax 項目：從 Windows、Mac OS X 或 Linux 系統上運行包含在光碟中的 Ajax 項目（HTML、JavaScript 和 PHP 源代碼）。
  
  


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  您的完整 Ajax 環境：將光碟作為 Ubuntu Linux 的即時光碟啟動，立即開始使用 Ajax 項目（無需設置）。
  
  


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  光碟中的即插即用工具包括 XAMPP Web 服務器、Firefox 網頁瀏覽器和 Bluefish HTML 編輯器。
  
  

系統要求：

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  平台：Windows、Linux、Mac（OS X 或更高版本）
  
  


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  處理器：基於 Intel 的處理器（Pentium 或更高版本）
  
  


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  內存：128 MB RAM 或更多
  
  


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  磁盤空間：無需，可選擇使用 USB 隨身碟存儲數據
  
  


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  光驅：CD 閱讀器
  
  

Negus Live Linux 系列

您實用、實戰的免費軟件指南

將書中的免費軟件和範例從光碟添加到您的 Windows、Mac OS X 或 Linux 系統，以便跟隨書中描述的項目進行操作。或直接啟動光碟，使用一套完整的預先打包的免費軟件工具集來播放、顯示和修改這些項目。從新手開始，嘗試一些範例...最終創建專業的 Ajax 啟用的網頁內容！