SAJAX is:
... an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit does 99% of the work for you so you have no excuse to not use it.
Well I'll be! A long time ago you might recall me talking about building a word 'radar' screen which uses 10x10's data about words in headlines. The back end programming was done AGES ago... it was pretty straight forward - but I needed a slick front end. Flash seemd like the way to go (for obvious reasons - i.e. its built to animate things), but I am no flash guru... I pondered a pure CSS and DHTML solution - but i didn't want to constantly have to refresh the screen just to get an animation of constantly changing data to show up... Well - SAJAX might come to the rescue... I'm going to have let my 'discovery' of SAJAX sink in for a minute... because I am sure I have plenty more useful applications of this tool in my brain...
andre
Posted by andre at May 2, 2005 06:37 PMi've used it.
it's pretty darn easy once you get used to callbacks. Much easier than JSRS, if you ask me. Mmmmmm.... php & javascript together at last.