I just starting working with what the developer community calls AJax about four months ago. Now I’m working on a massive database driven portal with a huge amount AJax calls to backend PHP scripts. I had the PHP down, but I needed to learn AJax fast. How did I do it? It only took about an hour of Javascript brush-up work and another hour of reading and working with the two following tutorials.

My first really helpful encounter with the concept of AJax was the Ajax and XMLHttpRequest Tutorial which includes a step by step source code representation of the process to making the necessary asynchronous Javascript requests. The second tutorial that I suggest is Dynamic Drive’s Basic Ajax Routine (Get & Post), which includes many source code and running examples, plus downloadable fully functioning scripts.

If you have a basic knowledge of Javascript and PHP (or some other server-side scripting language) you are ready to go implement some AJax after reading through these two tutorials.