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Ajax is getting very popular nowadays ,I see it every day on gmail ,even microsoft is imitating ajax.All I know about ajax is that it`s some kind of a php and java script combination ,can someone help me out on understanding ajax ,all links ,tutorials and other information regarding ajax are welcome.

I honestly have no idea what it is outside of the obvious stuff. Usually I see a lot of tutorials on assorted websites, but nothing concrete enough to say that i understand it. Anyone know any good links?

DjDarkman wrote:Ajax is getting very popular nowadays ,I see it every day on gmail ,even microsoft is imitating ajax.All I know about ajax is that it`s some kind of a php and java script combination ,can someone help me out on understanding ajax ,all links ,tutorials and other information regarding ajax are welcome.

Hi, this may be helpful for you(I hope ). Good explained tutorial at Mozilla Developer.

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http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_Started

This page is a good starting point to AJAX.
http://theopensourcery.com/ajaxlinks.htm

There is a good explanation of what is Ajax on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) ) and very interesting links with efficient examples easy to take and modify in the end of the article, enjoy.

Not in direct correlation with the subject but interesting too : the article about Web 2.0 on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2 , because Ajax is not a product but a simultaneous use of several technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript/DOM/XML/XSLT) & Ajax is also a component of Web 2.0...