Ajax Domain & whois search

Enter the domain desired , and results appear instantly as you type . Links to domain registrars appear if the domain is still available and If the domain is not available there are links to the whois registration information. Instant Domain Search is a great, simple Ajax tool for finding available .com and .net domain names. Another similar one is Ajaxwhois where the interface is more eye and user friendly.

Ajax Browser in a Browser - Gollum

This is a neat “browser in a browser” Ajax application. It makes Wikipedia beautiful, simple and lovely, almost more like an OS X dashboard widget application than the gigantically time-sucking wonderful website that it is. Beautiful.

Neat use of forward / back, nicely designed. As nice as this is, I don’t think I’ll be switching from using Google to find articles in Wikipedia anytime soon. But this is a really really neat and clean way of searching it.

It would also be neat if it could be pointed at other data sources / web sites than just Wikipedia.

By the way, the tranlsation editor seems like a great way to do that. Instant translation of the strings…

Gollum is GPL, and it looks like the source code will be available soon.

Gollum is based on PHP and Javascript using XMLHttp request for communication, better known as Ajax. That means, there is no need for databases and the code is ready for PHP5. Therefore, the client is only required to use a browser like Firefox, MS Internet Explorer, Netscape or Safari with activated Javascript. Safari has yet to be tested.

Visit Gollum: Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser

Ajax without the X? - Good article about combining a generic Javascript new script engine with some PHP to deliver simple AJAX interactions

If you’ve wrestled with the whole XMLHttpRequest part of AJAX you should read this article. It clearly explains the technique of appending a new Javascript SCRIPT tag into the body and using the results to display new or updated content.

But there is one problem with most of the current implementations of Ajax: it has one dependency, and that is the XmlHttpRequest object. Most modern browser, like Firefox, have inbuilt support for this object, but older browsers, like Internet Explorer 6, don’t have native support for this object. Luckily, IE 6 does support it, but it’s built in as an ActiveX control, which means your visitors get an ugly warning message about the possible danger of an ActiveX control, or in some cases it just doesn’t work at all.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Ajax without even having to use the XmlHttpRequest object.

Read the article: PHPit - Totally PHP - Ajax & PHP without using the XmlHttpRequest Object

Via digg where there’s some good discussion going on about this technique.

ONJava.com: AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons

I can’t wait to try this library out to see if it really does work to enable back and forward button support. Don’t be afraid to read all 6 pages of this excellent article and then download the example code and libraries.

This article presents an open source JavaScript library that finally brings bookmarking and back button support to AJAX applications. By the end of this tutorial, developers will have a solution to an AJAX problem that not even Google Maps or Gmail possesses: robust, usable bookmarking and back and forward behavior that works exactly like the rest of the Web.

“AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons” explains the significant issues that AJAX applications currently face with bookmarks and the back button; presents the Really Simple History library, an open source framework that solves these problems; and provides several working examples.

The principal discoveries of the framework presented in this article are twofold. First, a hidden HTML form is used to allow for a large transient session cache of client-side information; this cache is robust against navigation to and away from the page. Second, a combination of hyperlink anchors and hidden iframes is used to intercept and record browser history events, tying into the back and forward buttons. Both techniques are wrapped with a simple JavaScript library to ease development.

Read article: ONJava.com: AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons

Simple and clear example of how to create a MySQL connection with PHP/AJAX

This is a good and simple example of doing one very clear action — sending a command to open a MySQL database connection through the AJAX transport layer. It includes downloadable code examples as well to get you started.

Filed under, “Roll-your-own-Ajax” department.

In this tutorial I will explain how to open a mysql database connection using PHP and the all popular AJAX. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the XMLHttpRequest object works within php and the advantages of using it.

Read the full article: Creating a MySQL connection with PHP/AJAX at John Wiseman

AJAX Whitepaper - Issues when working with AJAX (Mercurytide)

This is a good and fairly thorough introduction to the world of AJAX programming, cleanly and simply laid out with clear examples of each piece of an AJAX transaction. Worth a read both for new and experienced coders who need to refresh their understanding of this whole squiggley octopus mess that we call AJAX.

This paper has covered the most commonly-encountered problems when first starting AJAX-based programming. It has shown how to write cross-browser code to instantiate an XMLHttpRequest object, how to build an AJAX request, and how to use the server response. It has also mentioned further work necessary to encompass more advanced techniques.

Read the article: Issues when working with AJAX (Mercurytide)

RSS updates via your instant messenger

I thought this new web application immedi.at might be of interest to AJAX Blog readers. It only uses AJAX sparingly but it is written using Rails and offers a unique capability that may be useful to some: the ability to recieve update notices in any instant messaging client when an RSS feed of interest changes.

This is kind of cool for certain things because you don’t have to actively check to see if stuff has been added to certain feeds, they come to you. Like, I use it to monitor comment threads on some blogs as they develop and to get updates when I have new gmail messages.

Holy Grail of PHP?

It was nice to see a very basic overview (with code examples) finally of how you actually implement Ajax in PHP in an end-to-end system.

PEAR’s DB_DataObject is a bit like Ruby on Rails’ ActiveRecord, though DB_DataObject has more of a code generation flavor than Object-Relational Mapping.

Delving into Ajax …

Now and then, I still get client requests back into the world of web design and programming. I’m currently working in the field as an archaeologist, but I used to run my own web business. Turns out, a client has started asking me questions about Ajax … Where to begin? I’m definitely “old school” in the world of web development.

So I figure, as I learn this new spectrum I’ll share with you here my findings. Best way to learn and grow the new skillsets. Any comments or suggestions are very appreciated.

What is Ajax? From my first understandings … its a web development technique for creating interactive web applications combining together XHTML and CSS, Document Object Model manipulated by JavaScript, and the XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data asynchronously with the web server.

Wow, that’s a mouthful.

So basically:

“Traditional web applications essentially submit forms, completed by a user, to a web server. The web server responds by sending a new web page back. Because the server must submit a new page each time, applications run more slowly and awkwardly than their native counterparts.

Ajax applications, on the other hand, can send requests to the web server to retrieve only the data that is needed, usually using SOAP or some other XML-based web services dialect. On the client, JavaScript processes the web server response. The result is a more responsive interface, since the amount of data interchanged between the web browser and web server is vastly reduced. Web server processing time is also saved, since much of it is done on the client.”
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX )

del.icio.us/tag/ajax feed … without the noise!

If you subscribe to any del.icio.us tags such as ajax or gtd, you may find this useful:

del.icio.us filtered - “Seeing a link once should be enough.”

It uses builds you a customized URL with your own ID, and filters out the dupes!

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