AJAX Resources for Beginners

2006 April 4
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by Rushi

Here is an updated version of the post – http://rushi.vishavadia.com/blog/2006/04/04/beginning-ajax/. Below is an older version:

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. 

117 Responses leave one →
  1. 2006 April 7

    Nice collection of useful links.. :) Nice blog…nice theme :)

  2. 2006 April 7

    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.

  3. 2006 April 7

    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

  4. 2006 April 7

    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.

  5. 2006 April 7

    Quite a nice collection!!!

  6. 2006 April 7

    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/

  7. 2006 April 7

    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.

  8. 2006 April 7

    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.

  9. 2006 April 8

    Good links Rushi! Thanks mate

  10. 2006 April 8

    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…

  11. 2006 April 8

    This looks very useful, thanks :)

  12. 2006 April 8

    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

  13. 2006 April 9

    excellent collection. great work :)

  14. 2006 April 9

    Great resource, we put as lot of this into play at our website. Ajax really helps us make our users happy.

    Andy Arnott
    CTO
    http://www.collaboradate.com

  15. 2006 April 9

    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.

  16. 2006 April 9

    Yeah stupid Microsoft, they only invented AJAX.

  17. 2006 April 9
    tom permalink

    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.

  18. 2006 April 9

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

    it it the evoluton of AJAX

  19. 2006 April 10

    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

  20. 2006 April 10

    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.

  21. 2006 April 10

    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.

  22. 2006 April 11
    Arbind permalink

    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 :)

  23. 2006 April 11

    amazing collection of links. thanks for compiling the good stuff in one place. will definitely look up while learning ajax

  24. 2006 April 13

    nice…

  25. 2006 April 14

    thanks

  26. 2006 May 10
    Adam permalink

    Hey found your site via google. Cheers for the resources! this is a site for the RSS reader me thinks, Cheers!

  27. 2006 May 16

    Very informative… Thx

  28. 2006 June 2

    There is a ajax based product search for the german market up at http://www.informationsarchiv.biz/ – It uses a doubleslider to specify a pricerange and has some other interesting features. It’s really a thing to look at – Just fill out the search-form and play around.

  29. 2006 June 12

    ajax.solutoire.com has loads of javascript, ajax in general and ajax framework resources/links

  30. 2006 June 18
    Everywhere permalink

    Man, you really know how to guide ppl while they want to learn something new.
    - this is a one stop AJAX pathway for beginner

  31. 2006 August 13

    Really cool resource :) thx for it

  32. 2006 September 11

    Really great article! Thanks :)

  33. 2006 September 19

    Thanks,

    It’s very nice and helpful for a new people like me. :D

  34. 2006 November 6
    rakesh_kpn permalink

    FreebookCentre.com
    Contains Lots of AJAX Tutorials

  35. 2006 November 6
    Rakesh permalink

    Freebookcentre.com

  36. 2007 January 3

    World Largest Collection of Ajax tutorials (300+)

  37. 2007 February 19

    Odd that someone interested in Ajax would be using a non-AJAX theme……

    Just an observation…. :-)

  38. 2007 February 19

    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 :)

  39. 2007 February 19

    The blog looks much better with this theme

  40. 2007 March 22

    This is great, bookmarked, thanks!

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  42. 2007 July 24

    Ye man, perfect links you aa deal with here. It could never be better

  43. 2007 July 27

    Here is a great source for Ajax Jobs.

  44. 2007 August 3

    Could you add deli.cio.us button for adding your site to database of usable links. It`d be easier to bookmark. Thx for your post.

  45. 2007 August 27

    Great article for beginners !

  46. 2007 August 27

    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?

  47. 2007 September 30

    Ruby on Rails Ajax
    its my da best source

  48. 2007 October 8
    tina permalink

    good work, thank you for sharing!

  49. 2007 December 3

    Great site. I will bookmark for my sons to view as well!!!v

  50. 2007 December 20

    I would like to see a continuation of the topic

  51. 2008 January 17

    Great article for beginners !

  52. 2008 February 20

    It is really good to find people putting this kind of information online a kind of info review, many people need these resources to move a head in the programming and web building world.

  53. 2008 May 19

    Lot of Ajax Books

  54. 2008 May 22

    good collection…

  55. 2008 June 16

    For anyone that would like to get to grips with how Ajax works (Ever want to get or post data?) – that’s not ready to jump straight into a heavy framework such as Prototype or jQuery, here’s an article and some lightweight files that might come in handy.

    AjaxLite >> http://blarnee.com/wp/?page_id=53

  56. 2008 July 24
    Tank3 permalink

    Great Resource List! Here is one more ajaxtutorials.com Thanks again!

  57. 2008 August 6

    Find lots of computer books on the site

  58. 2008 August 26

    this is a very good resource and will help me in developing my sites…

    thanks

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    If you want to hear a reader’s feedback :) , I rate this post for four from five. Decent info, but I just have to go to that damn google to find the missed bits. Thank you, anyway!

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