php-general Digest 5 Oct 2008 18:52:58 -0000 Issue 5719
Topics (messages 281449 through 281450):
Re: AJAX and PHP
281449 by: Micah Gersten
First 30 characters of a strong
281450 by: Ron Piggott
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Per Jessen wrote:
> Alain Roger wrote:
>
>
>> So in this case what is the plus for companies like MS, Google (with
>> Gmail), flicker and so on to use AJAX ?
>>
>
> For them (and others), it's about the user experience, and ajax is good
> at enhancing the user experience.
>
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>> it is on internet, so i guess they have a purpose to do that.
>> mine is to have a responsive and intuitive interface application
>> whatever it is on internet or intranet.
>>
>
> Now you are changing the rules - they are very different on the
> internet. My advice - don't use ajax in an attempt to reduce network
> traffic. Use it to enhance the user experience. Caching is much
> better at reducing network atraffic anyway.
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
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If it's the size of the page itself that is large, caching does not help
as the HTML is pulled everytime if something is different.
As for AJAX, check out http://xajaxproject.org
It makes AJAX really easy to code.
Thank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com
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How do I display the first 5 characters of a string?
$string="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
my desired output is
abcde
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