AJAX Programming with PHP Course Calendar (4 days)

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Recommended Pre-requisites

Students attending this advanced AJAX training should have taken our Introduction to PHP training or have equivalent experience.

Students should also have an understanding of HTML and CSS technologies.

Course Outline/Agenda

• Introduction to AJAX training
  • What is AJAX?
  • Why use AJAX?
  • Why not use AJAX?
• Defining look and feel using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • CSS Basics
  • CSS Selectors
  • Pseudo Selectors
  • CSS Styles & AJAX
• JavaScript Fundamentals
  • About JavaScript
  • Some JavaScript History
  • Basic Concepts
  • Examples
• JavaScript Lexical Structure
  • Case Sensitivity
  • Literals
  • Identifiers
  • The Assignment Operator
  • Reserved Words
  • Data Types
  • Logical Operators
  • Other Assignment Operators
  • Other Operators
  • Decision Statements
  • The Switch Statement
  • The Function Statement
  • The return Statement
  • More on Functions
  • Function Assignment
  • Function Arguments
• JavaScript Objects
  • Creating & Specifying Objects
  • Setting & Querying Objects
  • Miscellaneous Object Information
• Arrays
  • Array Methods
• JavaScript and the DOM
  • Understanding the DOM
  • The Client Side Document Object Hierarchy
  • The Document Object
• Using the Hidden Frames Technique
  • Understanding iFrames
  • Updating iFrames
  • Why Use iFrames?
• AJAX with XMLHttpRequest
  • Using XMLHttpRequest
  • XMLHttpRequest Methods
  • XMLHttpRequest Object Properties
  • Form Field Validation
  • XMLHttpRequest Advantages & Disadvantages
  • AJAX Restrictions & Limitations
  • XMLHttpRequest Wrap-Up
• On-the-fly Field Validation with AJAX
  • Understanding Incremental Field Validation
  • Implementing Incremental Validation
• Using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
  • About JSON
  • Using JSMX with JSON
  • A JSON/JSMX Example
• Periodic Refresh with AJAX
  • Understanding Periodic Refresh
  • Implementing Timeouts
• Incremental Page Loads
  • Why do Incremental Loads?
  • Implementing Incremental Loading
• Working with the XML DOM
  • The XML DOM

Class Size

On-Site Delivery

This course is available for on-site delivery for groups of 3 or more students.

OTG offers discounted training for on-site courses of more than 3 students - call us at 877-258-8987 (or submit the form on the upper right side of this page) for more information.

Course Details

• Easily convert existing non-AJAX PHP Applications to AJAX using iFrames
• Generate Interactive Incremental AJAX validation applications (such as in our enrollment form)
• Perform type-ahead completion using JavaScript and PHP
• Use the HTML DOM and XML DOM to navigate and parse existing pages, and apply interactive (or non-interactive style changes)
• Implement applications that perform periodic refresh or application timeouts
• Integrate PHP Session Handling with AJAX applications for data and object persistence
• Exchange information (arrays, multi-dimensional arrays, objects) between PHP and Javascript applications using JSON or XML methods
• Utilize the JSMX Libraries to easily generate interactive applications
• Utilize PHP to generate AJAX server proxies
• Utilize AJAX to access Yahoo! GeoData for address lookup & mapping

Instructional Materials

• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly & Associates)
• OTG Course Guide (see PDF below)

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