AJAX Magazine: Toxic, AJAX toolkit : Mobile Edition

Published on 2005-08-28 12:36:19

I don't know how I've forgot to mention this toolkit here, while it was the first one that I was using, Toxic makes very simple to call PHP methods from javascript. Callbacks can have a "soft" or "hard" binding making it easy to call calbacks in javascript from PHP. Even exceptions thrown in PHP are tranferred and can be caught as normal in javascript. For example


myUser.bindParams('save', 'User_id', 'User_login', 'User_firstname',
                    'User_lastname', 'User_email', 'User_group', 'User_age');
...
myUser.execute('save');


// The PHP code
class User {
  public function save($id, $login, $firstname, $lastname,
                       $email, $group, $age)
  {
    if ($id == null || $id == 0)
      {
          // Code to save user
          return $newUserId;
      }

    throw new Exception("Updating a user is not implemented");
  }
}

Toxic license is "free for all purposes except if you try to charge for Toxic itself". You can download Toxic 0.1 AJAX Toolkit from here.

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