Ajax tutorials to help you get on the way to setting up your first Ajax enabled application.
A brilliant idea from Drew McLellan that features this bit on getting started with prototype.js. A straightforward example to getting your feet wet with Ajax and prototype.
By way of a simple addressbook, Getting Started with Ajax provides concise instructions to building a widget with Ajax and fleshes out two examples: one that returns HTML and another that returns XML.
There is no way I'll be able to check all of these out, but with 60 Ajax tutorials listed, each with it's own description, you're bound to find something useful in this collection!
I haven't had time to read the free sample chapters yet, but this offering from Sitepoint looks interesting as it promises, amongst other things, to teach one how to Create an AJAX search application that pulls data from Amazon, del.icio.us, and Google, Fix the Back button problem, Use JSON, YAML, and XML to communicate with the server and Build an AJAX drag 'n' drop chess game.
The book also comes with a free 16 minute video about Ajax.
Note that I have linked this up with affiliate links.
A simple and straightforward explanation of how to build an animated search by Steve Smith of Orderedlist.com. It's not live as in "search as you type" live, but it does fetch and display the search results without reloading the page.
While his example is Wordpress specific on the PHP site, this shouldn't be hard to plug into your own system if need be.
Joshua Eichorn builds a "Hello World" AJAX application using JPSpan. He walks you thru the steps and in the end provides a working example and the source code to make it happen. If you want to quickly dissect a simple working Ajax app, give this a try.
The first in a series, Joshua Eichorn builds a "Hello World" AJAX application using Sajax. He walks you thru the steps and in the end provides a working example and the source code to make it happen. Like the jspan example, this is a nice simple tutorial to dissect your way into Ajax.
This article aims to give you an introduction to the foundations of remote scripting, in particular, the emerging XMLHttpRequest protocol. We'll then walk through an example application that demonstrates how to implement that protocol, while creating a usable interface.
If ever anyone asks for a simple explanation or example of Ajax, this is the one: it really
isn't as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be...