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AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 7 : Usability Improvements

The final part of our 7 part tutorial on creating an ajax chat system using MySQL and the Zend Framework.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 5: The Javascript, Sending Chat Messages, Screen Name Changes

Part 5 of our 7 part tutorial on creating an Ajax based Chat application.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 4: IndexController MessageAction() and JSON Encoding

In part 4 of this tutorial we take a look at adding a new MessageAction method to our current Controller. This will expect one piece of information: a new chat message.

Notes from the Web Builder 2.0 Conference

Last week I attended the Web Builder 2.0 Conference in snazzy Las Vegas, Nevada. This year, the name of the game was ajax, Ajax, and AJAX Our beloved PHP had a decent representation throughout the various sessions, but no more than during my own "PHP Powers Mashups" talk. At the conference I bumped into PHP security guru and buddy Chris Shiflett, and met some new folks like Cal Henderson from Flickr and Ask Bjørn Hansen. Normally, you'll find me working the Zend booth at this kind of conference, but this time I was free to attend sessions. I decided to post my notes on the most interesting things I saw at the conference, presented to you here list style.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 6 : Updating the User List

This is part 6 of our 7 part tutorial on how to create an web based chat application using Ajax, MySQL and the Zend Framework.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 3:Storage Medium, XML and the Message Process

As our chat application gathers pace we return to the server side of the application. At this point we have setup the Zend Framework with an IndexController class to handle server requests. After the initial loading of our HTML interface, we will expect all further server requests to be issued via AJAX (courtesy of Prototype and the XMLHttpRequest object) on the client side. We’ll see this in Part 5.

Asynchronous File Upload from anyexample.com

This weekend I found an interesting article over at anyexamples.com on using AJAX and PHP to do asynchronous file uploads. Click on inside and I’ll give you the details.

jMaki Project Announces Support for PHP

The jMaki project, which looks like it started life as a JSP tag project, announced today that they now supports PHP as well as Java. Click on inside, I’ll dig up the details.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 2:Prototype, Scriptaculous, Application HTML

In this week’s installment, we setup the HTML and JavaScript for our AJAX Chat application.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 1: Introduction, The Zend Framework

This tutorial is a step by step introduction to creating a lightweight chat application using XML as a storage medium.
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