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Ajax A Beginner’s Guide
by
Steven Holzner
New York



What You Need
To read this book, you should have a good knowledge of HTML. You don’t have to be an
HTML rock star, but you should know enough to put together a basic web page. If the level of HTML taken for granted in this book leaves you feeling lost, take a look at a good introductory HTML book before proceeding.

As far as the software side is concerned, you need a browser that can run JavaScript, such
as Internet Explorer or Firefox. Ajax revolves around browsers, so you need to have access to an Internet browser to use this book profitably and follow along with the examples.
It’s not totally necessary to do any server-side programming in this book, so you won’t
need to understand PHP as it’s introduced in this book. However, I do recommend that you
work with an Internet service provider (ISP) that will let you support PHP scripts online. If you don’t do any server-side programming, your Ajax experience will be extremely limited and only let you download preexisting files from the server. When you use PHP on the server, you can send data from the browser to the server (for example, the ZIP code in which a prospective buyer is looking for houses) and use that data to tailor the response that you send back to the browser for display.

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