Learn XML-AJAX – For Beginners

Course: Learn XML-AJAX – For Beginners
Learn to create interactive web applications using AJAX

Students learn to integrate XML/AJAX into their applications to seamlessly relay information from client-to-server.

We explore several methods to update page content, without page reload. This is the focal point of the course and is demonstrated through a variety of exercises and projects.

Students will have the opportunity to apply all their newly acquired skills to build a complete web application with a PHP/AJAX validated registration form, member’s access area, and encrypted authentication page using a login form. The project will also explore how to create a web based contact form and submit the data to an email address via SMTP using the PHPMailer Library.

What you’ll learn – Overview:

• XML Schema
• Parsing XML Files
• AJAX Search Suggest Function
• AJAX Database Select Menu
• Database Integration with AJAX
• AJAX Call Functions
• Creating Validated PHP Forms using AJAX
• Encrypting a Web Session
• Creating Login Authentication forms using AJAX & PHP
• Installing PhpMailer for Email Transmission

Key Concepts:

• Introduction to XML
• XML Basics
• XML Schema
• XML Parsing
• XML Parsing Continued
• Introduction to AJAX
• Search Suggest
• AJAX l Database Select Menu Tutorial

XML Defined (Wikipedia):
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

Course prerequisites:

• Basic knowledge of PHP & MySQL
• Basic Computer Skills