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Eight Weeks of Prototype: Week 5, Ajax with Prototype

By Quentin Zervaas, 30 April 2008, Ajax, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Prototype

This article is part of the series “Eight Weeks of Prototype”. Eight Weeks of Prototype is a series of articles covering the most important aspects of JavaScript development with the Prototype framework. Prototype is a JavaScript framework used to help developers easily create powerful web applications that work across all modern web browsers.. Read more about Eight Weeks of Prototype...

Introduction

In addition to all of the other useful classes Prototype gives to developers, it also provides a number of classes and methods for development of Ajax-enabled web applications. That is, it allows developers to easily perform HTTP sub-requests using XmlHttpRequest and to handle the response accordingly.

In this article I will show you how Prototype makes Ajax development for developers by covering the functionality it provides. Additionally, I will show you how to easily transfer data between your JavaScript code and web server using JSON data.

There are many Prototype concepts and functions used in this example that have been covered in earlier articles in this series, such as selecting and updating elements, and event handling.

In the final article in this series, I will cover an extensive example of programming with Prototype, which will include using Ajax to communicate with the web server.

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Eight Weeks of Prototype: Week 5, Ajax with Prototype

Introduction

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