Tuesday, 6 March 2007

Know About jQPie-jQuery PHP Interface Extension

Richard Thomas in a post over his blog, informs you about jQPie, a jQuery PHP Interface Extension. He previously talked about Pjq, a PHP handler to provide a simple way to call PHP functions from within Javascript and either get data back, inject PHP generated HTML or call jQuery functions from PHP. He has expanded on these ideas and has formed jQPie. He lists that the idea of jQPie is to provide a lightweight PHP interface to jQuery. The lightweight interface allows multiple ways to interact says the web site.

The benefits of this extension as listed in the web site are as follows:

• Lightweight
• Supports XML, HTML and JSON Handlers
• API is simple, while the handlers engine is PHP based the javascript library is usable by any language
• Includes a powerful autocomplete plugin, plans to provide other plugins for use and as examples

• Easily request and process data from PHP using .getJSON Example
• Inject PHP generated HTML into elements using .(element).load Example
• Call PHP functions directly from your web pages using .jqpie Example
• Call jQuery from PHP in respond to .jqpie calls Example
• Advanced autocomplete using jqpie_complete ExampleAuto