When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we'll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation.

The PHP handles defining the question, answers and the functionality to load, submit and return the current results (number of votes) back to the javascript. The communication between the PHP and javascript is a JSON message made simple thanks to PHP's json_encode function.

You can download the source or check out a live demo to see how it all fits together.

This is a demonstration of a very fast and easy way to build AJAX-type applications where communications between JavaScript on the client side and PHP5 on the server side is ideal. This library makes development of such systems fast and very simple.

In his example he shows how to create the PHP and Javascript functions that let the service talk back and forth. He defines a simple "Hello World" style application to show how it would be structured. He also includes a bit of more complex that has other functionality - getting a value out of an array and returning a property/private variable from the backend class.

HTMLPurifer is possibly the most understated underpublicised quality library in PHP today. I consider it a fundamental standard library that is automatically included in every PHP web application I start these days.

This latest release candidate (their first!) includes updates on two major features - the use of autoloading and a change to the way you use the filters. Check out a demo of it in action or just download this latest release and try it out for yourself.

Centered around the concept of "situational applications," IBM's work with mashups targets a growing trend in Web site development. [...] IT specialists should embrace the model as a foothold for PHP in the enterprise.

Some of Dan's presentation is outlined as well - a demo of IBM's Mashup Starter Kit, a look at best practices, and talk on the collaboration of IBM with Zend and ProgrammableWeb. If you're wanting to attend, be sure you RSVP as soon as possible (before the 21st @ 3pm) to reserve your spot.

Shortly Silverlight is a cross-browser platform that can be used for developing client-side components that run in the web browser and contain rich media, graphics and can interactively communicate with the user. The language that can be used for writing Silverlight code can be in general any .NET language, so our goal is to allow using PHP by making Phalanger compatible with Silverlight.

He has two demo applications - a simple car app and a helicopter game - he uses as examples. He focuses on the simpler of the two, the car demo, and gives the XAML source, the code for the PHPX file and talks some about the method of deployment that'd need to be used to get the app out to others.

You can download the complete source for the examples (including the Phalanger Silverlight runtime) as well.

Because it uses whitelists and a comprehensive knowledge of the HTML specification, it is bullet-proof against XSS, fixes malformed input rather than reject it, and is open and extensible. The 2.0.0 release lets users customize HTML Purifier's tag sets easier than ever before.

You can check out the official release announcement for of the updates in this release (including a comparison to other similar libraries). There's also a demo they've posted so you can give it a try.

This is a simple php handler, it doesn't try to generate javascript for you, honestly if your using jquery you better already be able to write your own javascript ;).

The goal is to provide a extremely simple way to call php functions from within javascript and either get data back, inject php generated html or call jquery functions from php.

You can check out his demo here - three simple examples showing how to get JSON values, inject HTML, and some more complex work with Javascript and CSS.

PQuery is a set of helper classes for JQuery JavaScript library.This library allows you to easily integrate AJAX , Effects and other JQuery functionality into your PHP scripts.IT has a small foot print and is compatible with PHP4 and PHP5.

They've also included an example of the code to show how simple it can be as well as links to download the library, check out some other demos (including an Ajax demo, two Effects demos, and two simple applications - a chat and to-do list), as well as pointing you to the complete documentation for the project.

Jonathan Modell was tonight's presenter. [...] His presentation focused on how he learned to integrate Ajax technology within a core PHP system. Obviously this is a hot topic, if somewhat too hot in my opinion.

David describes the rest of the presentation, highlighting where some of the popular Ajax function started, an overview of how it works, how JSON fits into the picture, and the speaker's preference in Ajax tools like Prototype.

Let's face it. The Zend Framework, like most web frameworks, has set some lofty goals: high quality components, a complete system for developing web applications, and simplicity. [...] As the framework is still sub-1.0 and mainly for early adopters, there's an easy way to determine whether the Zend Framework is right for your development efforts. So who is using the Zend Framework?

He mentions Lars Strojny's application - PhpWishList (demo) that started a new page on the Zend Framework's wiki - the applications page of projects and applications using the Zend Framework.