PHP Ajax Cookbook

395 Pages·2011·4.44 MB·English

by  Milan Sedliak

PHP Ajax Cookbook
PHP Ajax Cookbook
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First published: December 2011
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Credits
Authors
R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah
Roshan Bhattarai
Milan Sedliak
Reviewers
Raymond Irving
Vijay Joshi
Kae Verens
Acquisition Editor
Chaitanya Apte
Development Editor
Swapna Verlekar
Technical Editors
Arun Nadar
Priyanka Shah
Naheed Shaikh
Ajay Shanker
Project Coordinator
Joel Goveya
Proofreader
Chris Smith
Copy Editor
Brandt D'Mello
Indexer
Monica Ajmera Mehta
Graphics
Valentina Joseph D'silva
Production Coordinator
Shantanu Zagade
Cover Work
Shantanu Zagade
About the Authors
R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah is a very simple guy who first saw
computers only in 1998. Since then he got addicted to programming
and co-authored A to Z of C, a non-profit book on Turbo C/DOS
programming, while pursuing Master of Computer Applications in
The American College, Madurai. After graduation he joined Agriya
http://www.agriya.com/, then a startup company, and coded in Perl,
Visual Basic, Delphi, and heavily in PHP.
Currently he heads the projects division in Agriya, where he
oversees challenging Web 2.0 site development, web software
products, and labs initiatives. His goal at the workplace is to get big
branding and coverage for his labs projects.
I thank the entire team of Packt, especially Chaitanya Apte,
Pallavi M R, Joel Goveya, Poorvi Nair, Priyanka Shah, and Mary
Nadar for their patience, suggestions and support throughout
this project. This project wouldn't be a success without the co-
operation from the other authors: Milan Sedliak and Roshan
Bhattarai. My thanks go to my boss N. Aravind Kumar for
allowing me to take up this side project and my wonderful team
at workplace for the everlasting spirit and trust. On a personal
note, I'd like to thank my wife T. Heleena Thanka Christlet, who
is my secret mentor on algorithms and database queries, and
my little daughter R. Rithika Sharon for keeping me engaged
with this project.
Roshan Bhattarai holds an M. Sc. in IT degree and has previously
worked in various IT companies in Nepal and India as a Web
developer and Technical Lead. Currently, he co-owns and is working
as a CTO at Proshore.
Roshan owns and authors a popular web development-related blog
at http://roshanbh.com.np.
I would like to thank my father, mother, wife, brother, and his
friends who helped me in writing this book. My special thanks
goes to my father because he was the main person who
believed in my potential and asked me to study IT rather than
another faculty.
Milan Sedliak is a JavaScript specialist; jQuery and Cross-browser
compatibility is one of his key strengths. He likes challenging tasks
and he does everything he can to be at his best in this area.
He has experience with all kinds of websites and a lot of
technologies (8+ years): Portfolios, company presentations, e-
commerce, complicated reporting systems for telecommunication
devices, PHP websites with MySQL or MS SQL, ASP.NET 3,5, and
4, (C#) with MS SQL, and so on.
Milan has a lot of experience in international environments and is
currently employed by Skype as a software engineer specialized in
front-end web technologies and cross-browser compatibility. In the
past he has worked at Hewlett-Packard, Interoute, and Intertec
Media Group.
I would like to thank my girlfriend, my family and friends for their
support and believing in me, even in times when I didn't.
About the Reviewers
Raymond Irving is a trained Computer Technician, IT Consultant,
and Software Developer. Since 2001, he has worked on a number of
open source projects such as DynAPI, CLASP, and the MODx
Content Management System where his roles include Project
Administrator, Assistant Developer, and Project Co-Founder
respectively. His latest project is called the Raxan Framework
(www.raxanpdi.com) where he is the Founder and Lead Developer.
He currently designs, develops, and tests software applications in
Jamaica with special interest in Mobile, PHP, and AJAX web
development.
Vijay Joshi is a programmer with over six years of experience on
various platforms. He discovered his passion for open source four
years ago when he started playing with PHP on a hobby project after
completing his Masters in Computer Applications.
Vijay now is a freelance web developer, independent consultant for
few selected companies, and occasionally blogs at
http://vijayjoshi.org. He specializes in developing custom web
applications, mashups, creating apps using PHP frameworks, and
enhancing existing web apps using PHP and front-end libraries like
jQuery, jQUI, and so on.
Vijay is also the author of PHP jQuery Cookbook and a technical
reviewer of jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery both
of which are published by Packt.
Outside of work, he enjoys reading, trekking, and sometimes gets
obsessed with fitness.
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