Head Rush Ajax (Head First)

ISBN: 0596102259
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 241

Authors: Brett McLaughlin, Brett McLaughlin

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Head Rush Ajax
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Meet your author
Intro
Chapter 1. Web Applications for a New Generation: Using Ajax
Section 1.1. The Web, Reloaded
Section 1.2. Welcome to the new millenium
Section 1.3.
Section 1.4. Ajax to the rescue
Section 1.5. Reworking the Boards R Us report
Section 1.6. HTML Refresher
Section 1.7. What the server used to do...
Section 1.8. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 1.9. Make sure the server is finished
Section 1.10. Checking for the right ready state
Section 1.11. Just Do It
Section 1.12. Showing Katie some Ajax magic
Section 1.13. You did it You took a boring sales report, and turned it into a dynamic Ajax application
Section 1.14. Reviewing the highlight reel
Section 1.15. Exercise Solutions
Chapter 2. Making Ajax Requests: Speaking the Language
Section 2.1. Break Neck Pizza Delivery
Section 2.2. Solving the pizza delivery problem
Section 2.3. Break Neck Pizza, Ajax-style
Section 2.4. Diagramming the Break Neck app
Section 2.5. Be the Architect
Section 2.6. Step 1: Get the customer s phone number
Section 2.7. HTML 101: accepting user input
Section 2.8. Event handlers connect HTML to JavaScript
Section 2.9. Event handler roundup
Section 2.10. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 2.11. On to the JavaScript
Section 2.12. Use the DOM to get the phone number
Section 2.13. Connecting the DOM dots
Section 2.14. Step 2: Request the customer s address
Section 2.15. getCustomerInfo() at a glance
Section 2.16. Creating a request object
Section 2.17. Plans change
Section 2.18. Supporting multiple browsers
Section 2.19. Just Do It
Section 2.20. Back to getCustomerInfo()
Section 2.21. Talking to the server-side guys
Section 2.22. Break Neck s PHP script
Section 2.23. Request URLs deliver data to the server
Section 2.24. Giving instructions to the browser
Section 2.25. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 2.26. Send the request to the server
Section 2.27. Podcasting Studio
Section 2.28. Step 3: Retrieve the customer s address
Section 2.29. Under the Microscope: HTTP Ready States
Section 2.30. Checking the ready state
Section 2.31. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 2.32. What is the browser doing?
Section 2.33. Get the server s response from the request object
Section 2.34. Step 4: Update the order form
Section 2.35. Finishing off the callback function
Section 2.36. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 2.37. Test driving the Break Neck app
Section 2.38. When browsers cache request URLs...
Section 2.39. Now the request URL changes...
Section 2.40. Just Do It
Section 2.41. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 2.42. Step 5: Place the customer s pizza order
Section 2.43. Back to Break Neck s order form
Section 2.44. The final test drive
Section 2.45. EXERCISE SOLUTION
Chapter 2a. TOP SECRET: Eyes Only Duplication strictly prohibited
Section 2a.1. Problems at Break Neck...
Section 2a.2. Checking the request s status
Section 2a.3. Servers return a ready state and a status code
Section 2a.4. Back to Break Neck...
Chapter 3. She Blinded Me with Asynchronous
Section 3.1. What does asynchronous really mean?
Section 3.2. Break Neck Pizza is an asynchronous app
Section 3.3. But it was probably too fast for you to notice...
Section 3.4. What does asynchronous get you?
Section 3.5. Building an Ajax-powered coffee maker
Section 3.6. Three ingredients for asynchronous coffee
Section 3.7. Connecting the parts of the coffee maker
Section 3.8. How is the coffee maker going to work?
Section 3.9. The back-and-forth of Ajax development
Section 3.10. The coffee maker HTML
Section 3.11. Here s what we did...
Section 3.12. Sending a request for coffee
Section 3.13. Writing JavaScript to send the request
Section 3.14. Getting the beverage and size of the order
Section 3.15. Getting the value of a radio group
Section 3.16. What JavaScript do we still need to write?
Section 3.17. Getting and setting the text content in a div
Section 3.18. Checking a coffee maker s status
Section 3.19. Setting the text in a div
Section 3.20. Test drive
Section 3.21. What do we do with the server s response?
Section 3.22. Writing the callback function
Section 3.23. Interpreting the server s response
Section 3.24. Introducing the JavaScript substring() function
Section 3.25. substring() practice
Section 3.26. Finishing up serveDrink()
Section 3.27. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 3.28. The final test drive (right?)
Section 3.29. A closer look at the request object
Section 3.30. We need two request objects
Section 3.31. Creating two request objects
Section 3.32. Using two request objects
Section 3.33. Updating orderCoffee()
Section 3.34. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 3.35. Welcome to the world of asynchrony
Section 3.36. A synchronous test drive
Section 3.37. Change that baby back to asynchronous
Chapter 4. The Document Object Model:Web Page Forestry
Section 4.1. Need a dynamic application?
Section 4.2. Meet the DOM (again)
Section 4.3. Under the Microscope: The document object
Section 4.4. Using the DOM without Ajax
Section 4.5. Here s the HTML that you give to the browser...
Section 4.6. ...and here s how the browser sees the HTML
Section 4.7. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 4.8. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 4.9. Back to the forest
Section 4.10. Browsers see the world upside down
Section 4.11. A new type of tree: the DOM tree
Section 4.12. Podcasting Studio
Section 4.13. Moving around in a DOM tree
Section 4.14. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 4.15. Some browsers don t recognize Node
Section 4.16. Frequently Asked Questions?
Section 4.17. Exercise Solutions
Chapter 4.5. A Second Helping
Section 4a.1. Everyone s a critic
Section 4a.2. Checking out top5.html
Section 4a.3. What s the game plan?
Section 4a.4. The big picture
Section 4a.5. Setting up the CD covers
Section 4a.6. Adding event handlers
Section 4a.7. Running addOnClickHandlers()
Section 4a.8. Adding a CD to the top 5
Section 4a.9. After addToTop5() runs...
Section 4a.10. Pay attention to
Section 4a.11. Finding the
Section 4a.12. Adding children to an element
Section 4a.13. Back to event handlers
Section 4a.14. Testing addToTop5()
Section 4a.15. Adding the ranking number
Section 4a.16. What s left to do?
Section 4a.17. Completing addToTop5()
Section 4a.18. Testing the CD rankings (again)
Section 4a.19. A final test drive
Chapter 5. POST Requests: Saying More with POST
Section 5.1. Repeat business rocks
Section 5.2. Submitting a form with Ajax
Section 5.3. 1. Update the Break Neck HTML
Section 5.4. 2. Send the order to the server
Section 5.5. 3. Update placeOrder.php
Section 5.6. PHP ...at a glance
Section 5.7. 4. Write the callback function
Section 5.8. The DOM is connected to what a customer sees
Section 5.9. Test driving Break Neck
Section 5.10. Just Do It Solution
Section 5.11. The PHP code creates a new response header:
Section 5.12. The server talks back
Section 5.13. Break Neck error handling
Section 5.14. GET requests versus POST requests
Section 5.15. Web servers unencode POST data
Section 5.16. Send more data with a POST request
Section 5.17. Trying out POST requests
Section 5.18. Why didn t the POST request work?
Section 5.19. The mysterious POST data
Section 5.20. Setting the Content Type
Section 5.21. Another test drive
Section 5.22. EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
Chapter 5a.
Section 5a.1. Injecting mischief into Break Neck
Section 5a.2. Break Neck Pizza online
Section 5a.3. Welcome to SQL injection
Section 5a.4. Protecting against SQL injection in your JavaScript
Section 5a.5. What s wrong with the PHP script?
Section 5a.6. SQL injection attacks without the web form
Section 5a.7. Protecting against SQL injection in your PHP scripts
Section 5a.8. Your customer database is secure
Chapter 6. More Than Words Can Say
Section 6.1. XML: just what the doctor ordered
Section 6.2. Remember Katie?
Section 6.3. The problem with Boards R Us
Section 6.4. Filling that XML prescription
Section 6.5. more Frequently asked questions
Section 6.6. Trees, trees, everywhere I look
Section 6.7. Using responseXML in your code
Section 6.8. Just Do It
Section 6.9. Trying things out
Chapter 7. A Fight to the Finish
Section 7.1. A review of request and response formats
Section 7.2. Should you use XML or JSON?
Section 7.3. The heavyweight champion: XML
Section 7.4. The young upstart: JSON
Section 7.5. Frequently asked questions?
Section 7.6. Just Do It
Section 7.7. So which is the better data format?
Section 7.8. Which data format should you use?: The choice......is yours
Section 7.9. Just Do It Solutions
Appendix A. A Few Special Bonus Gifts
Section A.1. 1: Ajax toolkits
Section A.2. 2: script.aculo.us and other UI libraries
Section A.3. 3: Inspecting the DOM
Section A.4. Inspecting the DOM in Internet Explorer
Section A.5. Inspecting the DOM in Safari
Section A.6. 4: Using JSON libraries in your PHP scripts
Section A.7. 5: Using eval() with JSON
Section A.8. Use a JSON parser
Appendix B.
Section B.1. ajax.js
Section B.2. Using ajax.js
Section B.3. Using text-utils.js
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