Re: AJAX and PHP

Alain Roger wrote:

        Alain:

        The only difference the user experiences between having AJAX, or
        not, is refreshing the page. If page refresh is not a problem,
        then don't complicate your life. On the other hand, if page
        refresh is annoying, or not wanted, then AJAX is you're only
        solution.

        But as it has been said before, not all users have javascript
        turned on and as such AJAX will not work -- after all, it
        javascript.

        However, there are way to degrade gracefully from a AJAX site to
        a normal site. Google
        javascript graceful degradation" for references.

        Please note, going the AJAX route does not make your coding
        simpler -- it's a different critter. But it does (with help from
        jQuery et al) offer exciting new ways to present data.

        Cheers,

        tedd

    this is a standard response for me recently; but have you looked in
    to using flex 3 to build the clientside?

    additionally ajax's main benefit (in my mind) is that it allows you
    to pull down/update only the data you need, and not the whole page -
    often this means you can skip out a large part of the templating and
    make the php server side scripts so much lighter; very beneficial
    when polling. Other than that, as everyone has mentioned - it's
    mainly a cosmetic thing.

    --     nathan ( nathan@kraya.co.uk <mailto:nathan@kraya.co.uk> )

Without mixing themes (flex in PHP forum) flex is similar to AS3, no ?

yes, flex is "flash for developers"; the main language is AS3 and it outputs swf's; flex is basically a program which allows you to use mix of pre-made ui elements & classes, css and AS3 to quickly make great RIA's. -- nathan ( nathan@kraya.co.uk ) { Senior Web Developer php + java + flex + xmpp + xml + ecmascript web development edinburgh | http://kraya.co.uk/ }