CHAPTER 13

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Receiving Information from the Database

The information format to be returned usually takes one of a few forms, the first being basic textual confirmation of an event. The second could be a small, discrete set of output given a specific input. Finally, using JSON as the output format offers great flexibility since its structure is so dynamic. A common uses for JSON-formatted data ranges from bundling a small set of discrete data to passing reportable information from the database to a charting framework such as Google Visualizations.

While discussing processing in Chapter 9, we demonstrated receiving information from the database in ...

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