In this tutorial we will be creating a simple web-based chat application with PHP and jQuery. This sort of utility would be perfect for a live support system for your website.

This tutorial will walk you through the step in order to create an AJAX driven web chat program.  This will be a very simple program, but will be expanded upon in future tutorials. You can view the results of the AJAX Driven Web Chat Tutorial here You can download the Source for the AJAX Driven Web Chat Tutorial here Creating the Chat Tables We are going to create two tables for the chat program, but we will only use one...

AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX is a technique for creating fast and dynamic web pages. AJAX allows web pages to be updated asynchronously by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes. This means that it is possible to update parts of a web page, without reloading the whole page. Classic web pages, (which do not use AJAX) must reload the entire page if the content should change. Examples of applications using AJAX: Google Maps,...

Place linked select boxes on to your page that dynamicaly load items from database using Ajax. You can chain as many select boxes as you like. This is the start of a series of little helper classes for saving time re-writing small stuff that occure on a form again and again, like a select box filled with values from a db table and 1 of them is selected. That same file contains and second class used from the linked select...

Max’s AJAX website preloader is a simple AJAX framework which allows you to display an animation during your website is loading. Installation and usage is very easy, only takes some line of copy and paste. An example code and detailed installation instructions are also attached.

Max’s AJAX file uploader is a simple and easy to use script, which allows you to upload files to your webserver without reloading the current page. During the upload an animated progress bar is shown. The server side is written in PHP.