_yak technoblog

http://www.zend.com/pdt

Framework

http://codeigniter.com/

Template Engine

http://smarty.php.net/

Ajax enables web application to smoothly reload content. If the new content requires seperate java script it can’t usually be reloaded. However this kind of java script function can help.

function load_script() {
a = document.createElement('script');
a.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');
a.setAttribute('src','http://wasauchimmer.de/script.js');
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(a);
}

Ajax is kind of a shinny name for somthing that has been here for quite a while. Asynchronous calls with Java Script to sever scripts. This in combination with HTML/CSS allows to manipulate web apps a little like desktop apps, e.g just reloading a part of the page seamlessly instead of a HTTPRequest reopening the whole page.

A good explanation for one of the leading standalone Ajax Frameworks JPSPan and and the even better sAjax can be found here
http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/

A bunch of user interface frameworks for Java Script and other fancy widgets with / without additional browser ressources like Flash/Java plugins.

Java Script
Yahoo User Interface Library, Ajax included
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Dojo Toolkit
http://dojotoolkit.org/

Flash
A very cool flash based UI Framework, also supporting database connection via Flash and PHP
http://www.openlaszlo.org/

Java
ZK – ajay wihtout java script
http://www.zkoss.org/

CSS Layout
Yaml
http://www.yaml.de/

During the search for fancy web 2.0 application, I found a smart way to add Wysiwyg functionality to MediaWiki , Wikipedias Wiki Software. FCKeditor, a html and java script based text editor is used to plug-in the 1.5 version of MediaWiki, thus enabling easy to use wiki page editing for everyone without boring Wiki syntax for images, tables etc. Version 1.8 is available at that point, but you can’t use it with this solution.

This enables easy to use editing of Wiki pages , ajax based search in the Wiki ( unfortunately no wildcard search *sigh*). The solution is posted here. Some additional hack also allows an image upload und ajax based image include.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM_editor#FCKeditor
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FCKeditor#links_and_images