Yesterday, I was browsing through digg.com programming channel. Mmm.. Impressive, more than half of the stories are related to ajax. So, I decided to write about bit of ajax today.

The main advantage of AJAX is that it works like a desktop application; instead of refreshing the page every time you change something, you can interact with the server then and there. When we talk about the disadvantages, there are a lot; bookmarks, back button, search engine incompatibility, etc (there are hundreds of articles in the internet regarding these.. so, I’m not going to repeat those ). But use of some hacks will help you to avoid those problems.

There are plenty of AJAX frameworks, both client side and the server side ones. I have gone through many of them and found out that one of the bests is rico. This simple javascript client side framework also contains some animation effects and drag and drop feature.

If you had a careful look at the popular javascript frameworks, you’ll see that most of them are based on prototype. Prototype is a really powerful javascript framework which allows you to create classes.

When we consider about the server side languages, using php is really easy. It’s a simple light weighted language and php applications can be executed in almost any web server (of course only if it supports php).

So, this great combination of tools will make you ajax life easier; prototype, rico and php.

P.S. : As I have mentioned in an earlier post, firebug will help you a lot on debugging.

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