How does HTML_AJAX compare with the XAJAX project at Sourceforge?
XAJAX uses XML as a transport for data between the webpage and server, and you don’t write your own javascript data handlers to manipulate the data received from the server. Instead you use a php class and built in javascript methods, a combination that works very similiar to the HTML_AJAX_Action class and haSerializer combo. XAJAX is designed for simplicity and ease of use. HTML_AJAX allows for multiple transmission types for your ajax data – such as urlencoding, json, phpserialized, plain text, with others planned, and has a system you can use to write your own serializers to meet your specific needs. HTML_AJAX has a class to help generate javascript (HTML_AJAX_Helper) similiar to ruby on rail’s javascript helper (although it isn’t complete), and an action system similiar to XAJAX’s “action pump” that allows you to avoid writing javascript data handlers if you desire. But it also has the ability to write your own data handling routines, automatically register classes and methods usin
XAJAX uses XML as a transport for data between the webpage and server, and you don’t write your own javascript data handlers to manipulate the data received from the server. Instead you use a php class and built in javascript methods, a combination that works very similiar to the HTML_AJAX_Action class and haSerializer combo. XAJAX is designed for simplicity and ease of use. HTML_AJAX allows for multiple transmission types for your ajax data – such as urlencoding, json, phpserialized, plain text, with others planned, and has a system you can use to write your own serializers to meet your specific needs. HTML_AJAX has a class to help generate javascript (HTML_AJAX_Helper) similiar to ruby on rail’s javascript helper (although it isn’t complete), and an action system similiar to XAJAX’s “action pump” that allows you to avoid writing javascript data handlers if you desire.
