A collection of resources that support use of AJAX to create web pages and services that improve user experience.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications using a combination of:

• HTML (or XHTML) and CSS for presenting information
• The Document Object Model manipulated through JavaScript to dynamically display and interact with the information presented
• The XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data asynchronously with the web server. (XML is commonly used, although any format will work, including preformatted HTML, plain text, JSON and even EBML)

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This example demonstrates a simple AJAX javascript for requesting XML data from a server and displaying the response in a HTML-table. The server-side script is a simple PHP script, which actually just sends some XML data.

CGI::Ajax is an object-oriented module that provides a unique mechanism for using perl code asynchronously from javascript- enhanced HTML pages. CGI::Ajax unburdens the user from having to write extensive javascript, except for associating an exported method with a document-defined event (such as onClick, onKeyUp, etc). CGI::Ajax also mixes well with HTML containing more complex javascript.

CGI::Ajax supports methods that return single results or multiple results to the web page, and supports returning values to multiple DIV elements on the HTML page.

Using CGI::Ajax, the URL for the HTTP GET/POST request is automatically generated based on HTML layout and events, and the page is then dynamically updated with the output from the perl function. Additionally, CGI::Ajax supports mapping URL's to a CGI::Ajax function name, so you can separate your code processing over multiple scripts.

Other than using the Class::Accessor module to generate CGI::Ajax' accessor methods, CGI::Ajax is completely self-contained - it does not require you to install a larger package or a full Content Management System, etc.

We have added support for other CGI handler/decoder modules, like the CGI::Simple manpage or the CGI::Minimal manpage, but we can't test these since we run mod_perl2 only here. CGI::Ajax checks to see if a header() method is available to the CGI object, and then uses it. If method() isn't available, it creates it's own minimal header.

A primary goal of CGI::Ajax is to keep the module streamlined and maximally flexible. We are trying to keep the generated javascript code to a minimum, but still provide users with a variety of methods for deploying CGI::Ajax. And VERY little user javascript.

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Site with tutorials on xmlhttprequest, drag and drop, forms, uploaders, image gallery, live search, and tabbed pages.

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