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PAJAX update

Georges — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:17:15 +0000

I’ve been surprised by how many people have found interest in the PAJAX library. It has been downloaded over 160 times since its initial release late August and I’ve received quit a bit of mail, mainly from people needing assistance but also including very kind words. Here are some excerpts:

“Fantastic library…”

“Was just testing out your pajax engine..and boy is it nice and clean.”

“… I think design vise you library is the best PHP version of AJAX for now.”

“Out of the many tool kits that I reviewed, many provided only part of the functionality that was needed. Many others, had requirements beyond what was feasible. Out of all that were reviewed, your Pajax tool kit was the only one that passed all the requirements. In addition, the code that makes up the toolkit is cleanly designed and is easily integrated into existing projects without a major rewrite of the code base.”

Whoa feels good to provide something useful. I just released an update that fixes some minor bug with IE (surprise, surprise).

Introducing PAJAX

Georges — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:27:23 +0000

Wanting to put AJAX to good use, I’ve created a small framework that would allow simple PHP objects to be made remotable in JavaScript, using XMLHttpRequest. Find out more about PAJAX – Remote (a)synchronous PHP objects in JavaScript.

Couffin: Yet another PHP shopping basket

Georges — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:54:23 +0000

You might be thinking, why on earth does the world need another PHP shopping cart? I certainly would agree with you. Several months ago I was faced with the task of helping my wife switch out of PayPal’s shopping cart. I initially thought that there must be thousands of shopping cart already written, and quickly realized that there were. Unfortunately, they all seemed to be way too complex for a simple site that needed to sell a dozen products and wanted to maintain a tight control on the look and feel. I checked out Zen Cart which I really liked initially. It offers lots of features, but overall is more of a complete store front as opposed to a simple cart.

I only needed a cart that would gather few products, capture the customer information and hand off the transaction to a secure credit card processor such as charge.com.

After a while, I decided that this would be a good opportunity to play around with PHP and CSS and wrote a cart of my own. I named it “Couffin” after a French word for a sturdy yet simple basket made of woven straws, often used to shop at open air markets in Provence. It’s pronounced “ku-fn”.

If you are looking for a simple set of PHP scripts to get a jump start on your next shopping cart project, hopefully you’ll find Couffin useful. Download the source code or see it in action.