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To make PHP applications that respond quickly, avoid unnecessary page reloads, and provide great user interfaces, often requires complex JavaScript techniques and even then, if you get that far, they might not even work across different browsers! With jQuery, you can use one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, forget about cross-browser issues, and simplify the creation of very powerful and responsive interfaces – all with the minimum of code.
This is the first book in the market that will ease the server-side PHP coder into the client-side world of the popular jQuery JavaScript library.
This book will show you how to use jQuery to enhance your PHP applications, with many examples using jQuery's user interface library jQuery UI, and other examples using popular jQuery plugins. It will help you to add exciting user interface features to liven up your PHP applications without having to become a master of client-side JavaScript.
This book will teach you how to use jQuery to create some really stunning effects, but without you needing to have in-depth knowledge of how jQuery works. It provides you with everything you need to build practical user interfaces for everything from graphics manipulation to drag-and-drop to data searching, and much more. The book also provides practical demonstrations of PHP and jQuery and explains those examples, rather than starting from how JavaScript works and how it is different from PHP.
By the end of this book, you should be able to take any PHP application you have written, and transform it into a responsive, user-friendly interface, with capabilities you would not have dreamed of being able to achieve, all in just a few lines of JavaScript.
This is the first book in the market that will ease the server-side PHP coder into the client-side world of the popular jQuery JavaScript library.
This book will show you how to use jQuery to enhance your PHP applications, with many examples using jQuery's user interface library jQuery UI, and other examples using popular jQuery plugins. It will help you to add exciting user interface features to liven up your PHP applications without having to become a master of client-side JavaScript.
This book will teach you how to use jQuery to create some really stunning effects, but without you needing to have in-depth knowledge of how jQuery works. It provides you with everything you need to build practical user interfaces for everything from graphics manipulation to drag-and-drop to data searching, and much more. The book also provides practical demonstrations of PHP and jQuery and explains those examples, rather than starting from how JavaScript works and how it is different from PHP.
By the end of this book, you should be able to take any PHP application you have written, and transform it into a responsive, user-friendly interface, with capabilities you would not have dreamed of being able to achieve, all in just a few lines of JavaScript.
About the Author
Kae Verens
Kae Verens has worked in software and web site development for over 11 years, and is an owner-manager of a web-design company in Ireland. He enjoys writing innovative solutions for customer problems, and taking existing software and improving on it.
Kae is the original author of KFM, a very popular PHP and jQuery file manager. He is also the primary developer of Webworks WebME, a user-friendly CMS, and is secretary of the Irish PHP Users Group.
When not being paid to code, Kae is a husband and is father to two children, and is learning to play the piano and write music.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A pretty good book, but some of the PHP used is a bit advanced and not what a beginner would consider conventional. E.g short hand if statements. Really needs you to follow along with the code but its worth the effort. The best way to learn is by getting your hands dirty with the code. I'll prob come back to this book after a bit more time with the basics of jQuery.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I prefer the blow-by-blow reviewing style, so here are my thoughts on jQuery 1.3 with PHP
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Nice intro to the book with a few good examples of jQuery usage, but also a great analogy explaining AJAX requests (for anyone who's been living in a cave for the last few years)
Chapter 2: Quick Tricks
This chapter is where you start getting your hands dirty with some great real-world examples. Lots of people have wondered how to do "that edit-in-place thing that Flickr does with text inputs", and here it is. Also, despite using jQuery for over two years, I managed to learn a few functions I'd never even heard of before. Bonus.
Chapter 3: Tabs and Accordions
Here, you get introduced to jQuery UI, which is a great way to ease the pain for the developer with little-to-no CSS knowledge. With that same developer in mind, the CSS instructions are clear enough without being patronising. The basic jQuery Accordion and Tabs are covered, but with a nice PHP twist to aid end users. You're also introduced to a little AJAX usage, which dynamically loads the data into the Accordion and Tabs.
Chapter 4: Forms and Form Validation
A solid chapter about forms that covers some nifty tricks with JSON, including: form validation, remote validation, dynamic selects, auto-suggestion.
Chapter 5: File Management
Some basic security concerns are addressed here, before moving on to build a file manager. There's a lot of code in this chapter, which deals with reading, creating, renaming, deleting, and moving files and directory structures. Flash makes a minor appearance when you deal with file uploads - using the Flash-based Uploadify plugin - and finally file downloads are dealt with using a sneaky jQuery-generated iframe to load file requests and punch them down to the user.
Chapter 6: Calendars
This chapter tells you how to build a weekly calendar, using the jquery-week-calendar plugin: creating, editing, moving and deleting events, as well as recurring events. You'll also get familiar with some more of the jQuery UI library.
Chapter 7: Image Manipulation
ImageMagick time! Non-destructive manipulation to cachable images is the name of the game here. Rotation and resizing are fairly straight-forward, but cropping gets interesting with the use of the Jcrop plugin.
Chapter 8: Drag and Drop
This is a fairly consise chapter, as the jQuery UI library makes drag'n'drop as easy as falling over after drinking a crate of Stella Artois. However, jQuery UI doesn't deal with saving your data, so that's the main coverage in this chapter, ending with a nice way to connect lists.
Chapter 9: Data Tables
This starts off showing you how to use the DataTables plugin for some nice output on relatively small tables. Nice inclusion of Nine Inch Nails and Primus in the examples! Once you're in the big league and need to do some heavy lifting, you'll learn how to grab data on demand with AJAX. MySQL is also involved in this chapter. Caching and pagination get a walkthrough, along with sorting and filtering.
Chapter 10: Optimization
This final chapter contains some solid gold tips. It takes you through where to put your scripts, how to aggregate and cache them, how to un-cache the buggers when needed, and how to write your own plugins. Some excellent jQuery optimisations close up the chapter.
Overall thoughts
jQuery 1.3 with PHP is certainly a worthy purchase for the PHP developer who wants to look into JavaScript but hasn't really had the time. Plenty of the examples lead on to suggest trying more complicated PHP development (eg. using sessions in the examples, where database calls would be used in the wild), but your time isn't constantly wasted with things you've already known since you started life as a PHP developer. There is an extensive use of plugins, showing you don't have to do everything from scratch, which is certainly an area of jQuery that excels over other libraries.
Conclusion
If you're a PHP developer who doesn't know much JavaScript, buy it.
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Nice intro to the book with a few good examples of jQuery usage, but also a great analogy explaining AJAX requests (for anyone who's been living in a cave for the last few years)
Chapter 2: Quick Tricks
This chapter is where you start getting your hands dirty with some great real-world examples. Lots of people have wondered how to do "that edit-in-place thing that Flickr does with text inputs", and here it is. Also, despite using jQuery for over two years, I managed to learn a few functions I'd never even heard of before. Bonus.
Chapter 3: Tabs and Accordions
Here, you get introduced to jQuery UI, which is a great way to ease the pain for the developer with little-to-no CSS knowledge. With that same developer in mind, the CSS instructions are clear enough without being patronising. The basic jQuery Accordion and Tabs are covered, but with a nice PHP twist to aid end users. You're also introduced to a little AJAX usage, which dynamically loads the data into the Accordion and Tabs.
Chapter 4: Forms and Form Validation
A solid chapter about forms that covers some nifty tricks with JSON, including: form validation, remote validation, dynamic selects, auto-suggestion.
Chapter 5: File Management
Some basic security concerns are addressed here, before moving on to build a file manager. There's a lot of code in this chapter, which deals with reading, creating, renaming, deleting, and moving files and directory structures. Flash makes a minor appearance when you deal with file uploads - using the Flash-based Uploadify plugin - and finally file downloads are dealt with using a sneaky jQuery-generated iframe to load file requests and punch them down to the user.
Chapter 6: Calendars
This chapter tells you how to build a weekly calendar, using the jquery-week-calendar plugin: creating, editing, moving and deleting events, as well as recurring events. You'll also get familiar with some more of the jQuery UI library.
Chapter 7: Image Manipulation
ImageMagick time! Non-destructive manipulation to cachable images is the name of the game here. Rotation and resizing are fairly straight-forward, but cropping gets interesting with the use of the Jcrop plugin.
Chapter 8: Drag and Drop
This is a fairly consise chapter, as the jQuery UI library makes drag'n'drop as easy as falling over after drinking a crate of Stella Artois. However, jQuery UI doesn't deal with saving your data, so that's the main coverage in this chapter, ending with a nice way to connect lists.
Chapter 9: Data Tables
This starts off showing you how to use the DataTables plugin for some nice output on relatively small tables. Nice inclusion of Nine Inch Nails and Primus in the examples! Once you're in the big league and need to do some heavy lifting, you'll learn how to grab data on demand with AJAX. MySQL is also involved in this chapter. Caching and pagination get a walkthrough, along with sorting and filtering.
Chapter 10: Optimization
This final chapter contains some solid gold tips. It takes you through where to put your scripts, how to aggregate and cache them, how to un-cache the buggers when needed, and how to write your own plugins. Some excellent jQuery optimisations close up the chapter.
Overall thoughts
jQuery 1.3 with PHP is certainly a worthy purchase for the PHP developer who wants to look into JavaScript but hasn't really had the time. Plenty of the examples lead on to suggest trying more complicated PHP development (eg. using sessions in the examples, where database calls would be used in the wild), but your time isn't constantly wasted with things you've already known since you started life as a PHP developer. There is an extensive use of plugins, showing you don't have to do everything from scratch, which is certainly an area of jQuery that excels over other libraries.
Conclusion
If you're a PHP developer who doesn't know much JavaScript, buy it.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book states that it is for PHP developers. Yes it is good for PHP develpers but it is exceptional, in my opinion for nearly-newbies to PHP and jQuery alike.
Yes there is some technical stuff in there but the examples are so clear (and copy-pastable) that I as somebody without jQuery or PHP expertise was successfull with the examples.
Chapters 3 and 8 are worth the cost of the book alone. Creating cool dynamic tabs and accordions was a breeze and dragging and dropping page elements slightly more challenging but still achieveable for a determined novice.
Yes good book.
Yes there is some technical stuff in there but the examples are so clear (and copy-pastable) that I as somebody without jQuery or PHP expertise was successfull with the examples.
Chapters 3 and 8 are worth the cost of the book alone. Creating cool dynamic tabs and accordions was a breeze and dragging and dropping page elements slightly more challenging but still achieveable for a determined novice.
Yes good book.
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