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Name:Ajax PHP tutorial
Total steps:3
Category:AJAX basic tutorials
Date:2007-11-12
Level:Beginner
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Step 3 - PHP code and the complete AJAX example


Ajax PHP tutorial

 

Implementing the server side functionality is very simple compared to the client side. In the PHP code we just need to check the $_GET super-global array. Afterwards convert it to uppercase and echo the result. So the PHP code is this:

Code:
  1. <?php
  2. if (isset($_GET['inputText']))
  3. echo strtoupper($_GET['inputText']);
  4. ?>

That's really short, isn't it?

At least you can find the complete client and server code below.

Client:

Code:
  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  2. "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  3. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  4. <head>
  5. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  6. <title>Ajax - PHP example</title>
  7. </head>
  8.  
  9. <body>
  10.  
  11. <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
  12. <!--
  13. // Get the HTTP Object
  14. function getHTTPObject(){
  15. if (window.ActiveXObject) return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  16. else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) return new XMLHttpRequest();
  17. else {
  18. alert("Your browser does not support AJAX.");
  19. return null;
  20. }
  21. }
  22.  
  23. // Change the value of the outputText field
  24. function setOutput(){
  25. if(httpObject.readyState == 4){
  26. document.getElementById('outputText').value = httpObject.responseText;
  27. }
  28.  
  29. }
  30.  
  31. // Implement business logic
  32. function doWork(){
  33. httpObject = getHTTPObject();
  34. if (httpObject != null) {
  35. httpObject.open("GET", "upperCase.php?inputText="
  36. +document.getElementById('inputText').value, true);
  37. httpObject.send(null);
  38. httpObject.onreadystatechange = setOutput;
  39. }
  40. }
  41.  
  42. var httpObject = null;
  43.  
  44. //-->
  45. </script>
  46.  
  47. <form name="testForm">
  48. Input text: <input type="text" onkeyup="doWork();" name="inputText" id="inputText" />
  49. Output text: <input type="text" name="outputText" id="outputText" />
  50. </form>
  51. </body>
  52. </html>

Server:

Code:
  1. <?php
  2. if (isset($_GET['inputText']))
  3. echo strtoupper($_GET['inputText']);
  4. ?>

 




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Ajax PHP tutorial - Table of contents
Step 1 - Ajax basics
Step 2 - Sending data to PHP with Ajax
Step 3 - PHP code and the complete AJAX example



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