Hey folks, if you’re developing Web apps with PHP (4.3+ or 5+) and have been wondering how to take full advantage of all that Ajax has to offer, you owe it to yourself to check out xajax! 0.2.4 started out as a quick big-fix update and ended up containing a few really neat new feature that will make your life easier, the biggest of which is the new addScriptCall command for the response object. Now you can call functions in your client scripts (or other Javascript functions/objects including script.aculo.us effects!) using a simple PHP method that automatically converts your PHP data structures to Javascript data structures. No, it’s not using JSON, but a simple XML format we were already using for passing Javascript data structures to PHP. One cool thing about this is that I didn’t write the bulk of the code for this feature — it was submitted as a patch by Luis Fagundes to Sourceforge and our community forums. Open source in action! I love it!

So be sure to check out xajax and let us know how you like it!

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