> - Is GWT for me? Or I'd rather use Dojotoolkit or another Javascript > library?
That's a hard question. IMHO, GWT is primarily for building a complete JS based web application, not for sprinkling some AJAX in a few places. However, there are a lot of examples of websites that have AJAX functionality that's built with GWT. Personally, I think if you're adding some minor javascript tweaks, you're probably better off using some JS library. If you want to build large components of the site that are interactive, GWT would probably be a good choice. > - What's the best way to set up (organize) a PHP project and connect > it with GWT? (I mean folder structure and everything) Since the PHP code is server side, I'd probably just keep it in a separate project. > - What's the best to use for client-server communication: JSON, XML or > something else? (if I want to do stuffs like at the above examples) Check out the gwtphp project (http://code.google.com/p/gwtphp/) which allows you to use GWT's native GWT-RPC. Regards, -- Arthur Kalmenson On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:23 AM, pappfer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm a web programmer. I mainly code in PHP with MySQL and also > familiar with XHTML and CSS. I also have some Java and basic > JavaScript knowledge. > > But I never used Ajax before. I was thinking that it might not worth > to study how Ajax works cause it'd take lots of time and I thought > using a Javascript library would probably be a better choice. I read a > lot about them and I found Dojotoolkit to be the best for me. > But then I read about GWT that it makes super-fast Javascript which > would be great for me and I would also get more into Java. So it > seemed perfect for me. I read the documentation and saw how to make a > simple client application. > > But then as a web programmer the most important thing for me was to > make use of client-server communication to put some Ajax power into my > PHP applications. But I found this part quite difficult. > I use Eclipse PDT and the GWT's Eclipse plugin. I realized that when > creating a new web application and I'm copying my PHP files onto that > application folder I can't use PDT's tool for PHP cause I can only see > the project if I'm using Java perspective. > > Overall, my goal is to put some Ajax power in my PHP applications. For > example I have a website about mobile phones and I store all phones > and all the data in a MySQL database. I want them to be searchable > without reloading the page. Or I want to click on a "Next phone" > button to see the next phone in the database without reloading the > page or a "Compare phones" button and want to compare two selected > phones without reloading the page. > > My questions are: > - Is GWT for me? Or I'd rather use Dojotoolkit or another Javascript > library? > - What's the best way to set up (organize) a PHP project and connect > it with GWT? (I mean folder structure and everything) > - What's the best to use for client-server communication: JSON, XML or > something else? (if I want to do stuffs like at the above examples) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
