Professional LAMP: Linux®, Apache, MySQL®, and PHP5 Web Development

11.6. Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use AJAX to push much of the processing of web applications onto the client. You also learned that AJAX isn't some new trend, but is in fact the outgrowth of several older techniques, each of which has some drawbacks that make them less than ideal. This chapter showed you how to use the AJAX interfaces, and how to handle the responses from the client. It also touched on some of the AJAX libraries you can use, and even discussed the situations where you shouldn't use it.