AJAX Resources for Beginners « Rushi’s Ramblings

AJAX Resources for Beginners

Apr 4, 2006 by Rushi Vishavadia

Like many people out there, I'm just getting to know the technologies AJAX's hood. For people who don't know about AJAX, Wikipedia gives good info. Ajax in one line is a technology by which you can send and receive data without the page being reloaded, so it looks more 'dynamic'. I guess this could be the dummy way of explaining it.

I wanted to know more about AJAX and learn how to code with AJAX. Just the basic stuff. This is what I found:

Getting Started with AJAX - Author Aaron Gustafson takes you through writing a basic AJAX application (An address book). Lots of code there.

Mastering AJAX - This is a pretty good tutorial which gives you the nitty gritty basics, talks about cross browser compatibility which is really important with XmlHTTPRequest object in IE (stupid MSFT :-p) What I like about this tutorial is that it explains info in a very easy to understand manner and it also says why you need it. (Part 1 (introduction) of the tutorial is here)

Using AJAX with PHP and mySQL - Being a PHP Developer myself, this tutorial is really well written and very complete. Step by step instructions on how to go about working with the XMLHttpRequest object too.

XAJAX - Xajax is an open source PHP Library for building ajax based applications. xajax is very easy to use and damn powerful, allowing you to use php where you wouldnt unneccesarily use JavaScript. They have a very good tutorial here called Learn Xajax in 10 Minutes.

Another good tutorial by John Wiseman on Creating a mySQL connection with PHP and Ajax.(If the code seems too small copy and paste it intoyour favorite editor, or hit Ctrl + '+' on Firefox to increase font size)

Ajax Loading Indicators & Icons - You can make up your own indicator icons, but the ones provided are really nice and fancy.

Lastly, Max Keisler has a very comprehensive list Ajax tutorials, resources - from beginner to advanced.

Leave a comment and tell me what you think about this blog and these articles :)

Edit: The Ajaxian carries a good list of books on Ajax to learn from.

Posted in AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Web 2.0 | Tagged Web Apps | 96 Comments

96 Responses to “AJAX Resources for Beginners”

on Apr 7, 2006 at 2:531 krizdabz

Nice collection of useful links.. :) Nice blog…nice theme :)
on Apr 7, 2006 at 7:452 Mitch

Great resource! I’ve been meaning to do a similar post. It’s interesting, since the Ajax storm began, I think there has been a wider availability of tutorials and references than for any other technology or technique. The web is alive! Thanks again, Rushi.
on Apr 7, 2006 at 10:073 Raghu

Sajax (www.modernmethod.com/sajax/) is a nice little toolkit for AJAX with perl/php/py. I’ve actually used it myself on http://www.twocrowds.com and http://www.jotcloud.com.

I recommend it for its simplicity
on Apr 7, 2006 at 10:154 Psycho Dude

Nice resource :), I’ve recently started learning AJAX for myself and a lot of these sites are something I already came by, but it’s definately nice for new people to have them listed together like this.
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on Apr 7, 2006 at 10:566 Freebookzone

Quite a nice collection!!!
on Apr 7, 2006 at 11:057 Andrew

A lot of Ajax beginers tutorials also was collected by Max Kiesler here: http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/weblog/comments/round_up_of_30_ajax_tutorials/
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on Apr 7, 2006 at 19:3510 Rushi Vishavadia

Raghu: I looked into Sajax, but never got a chance to playaround with it. I’ve only had a chance with Xajax.

All: This is a basic write up. There are lot more resources out there (like Max Keisler’s). I consider these a good starting point. You won’t have to sort through tons of resources.
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on Apr 7, 2006 at 23:1312 komodocode

Thanks so much for the list of links. I am a total beginner of Ruby, Rails and AJAX. This will help give my learning and development a boost.
on Apr 8, 2006 at 5:4313 Chrono Cr@cker

Good links Rushi! Thanks mate
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on Apr 8, 2006 at 11:5116 Youngblood

Thanks for the headsup. I’m still new, and in the process of building a website; learning as I go along. I’ll definitly check Ajax out…
on Apr 8, 2006 at 12:1717 parrymason

This looks very useful, thanks :)
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on Apr 8, 2006 at 17:4619 Rahul Sapkal

Here is another article that will get you started on AJAX,

Implementing simple AJAX interaction in your Web Application using XMLHttpRequest object :
http://www.javareference.com/jrexamples/viewexample.jsp?id=111
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excellent collection. great work :)
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on Apr 9, 2006 at 13:4923 Andy

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on Apr 9, 2006 at 14:2124 Keith

Besides RUBY and PHP, AJAX is the next latest innovation on the Internet. I believe this site is going to help a lot of other AJAX beginners including myself. Good work.
on Apr 9, 2006 at 14:2325 Haydur

Yeah stupid Microsoft, they only invented AJAX.
on Apr 9, 2006 at 15:5426 tom

Here’s an AJAX tutorial using Prototype:
http://24ways.org/advent/easy-ajax-with-prototype
Prototype seems to take care of some of the cross-browser incompatibilities, leaving an easy framework for implementing asynchronous javascript requests.
on Apr 9, 2006 at 16:3927 Dhtml Guy

Good collection - but also consider adding “COMET” programming to your list

it it the evoluton of AJAX
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on Apr 10, 2006 at 1:2429 Brian

Nice list :)

I wrote a VERY basic ajax tutorial using classic ASP as the back end a little bit ago.

http://www.skeymedia.com/programming/classic-asp-and-ajax-tutorial/index.html
on Apr 10, 2006 at 2:3330 esoos

Hey Rushi,

As I know you’re aware, you’re getting an insane amount of del.icio.us and digg love from this post. Perhaps you’d consider a future ‘rambling’ about what that exposure has meant in terms of traffic, page views, ect…, and from what sources. I think it’d be an interesting topic.

Thanks, and…yay AJAX! Always fun to refine and expand the old programming skills.
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on Apr 10, 2006 at 4:0432 Nitu Chiring

A good listing.

After much procrastination, I have finally come out with my own listing. It is available at http://midnitecoder.blogspot.com/2006/04/ajax-resources-list-version-1.html

Hope, this will help ajax followers as well.
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on Apr 11, 2006 at 6:5242 Arbind

Hi Rushi,
Its really a nice collection of AJAX stuff. Earlier i had went thru many website but this one is really amazing….
As i have started my carrier so it is very useful for me…..

Great work :)
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amazing collection of links. thanks for compiling the good stuff in one place. will definitely look up while learning ajax
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on Feb 19, 2007 at 7:5076 Sirthinks

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on Feb 19, 2007 at 10:2777 Rushi Vishavadia

The blog looks much better with this theme. that’s why. Just because I like Ajax doesn’t mean I have to have an Ajax styled theme.

Plus WP.com doesn’t give me that much leverage to implement more Ajax stuff in the theme :)
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on Aug 27, 2007 at 11:3189 Jim

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on Aug 27, 2007 at 12:3590 AJAX SF

Those are great beginner articles on Ajax development. There are also many great articles at ajaxian.com for more advanced students. For truly beginning students, start with learning JavaScript first as this is a requirement for AJAX. Perhaps a list of JavaScript articles is in order here too?
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