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

Who this course is for:

• Beginner Web Developers interested in Learning XML & AJAX
• Students interested in Building Web Applications
• Students interested in Building Login Authentication Forms and Blogs
• Students interested in Processing Database Queries using AJAX