ajax stands for asynchronous javascript and xml. it’s used for creating a more interactive web applications. web page content can be updated without reloading the entire web page. think gmail, and the current yahoo!mail and hotmail interfaces. a better explanation here.

even though i’ve been working on web development projects for years, javascript is one of my weakest links. most ajax packages are javascript based. so i’ve been avoiding using it until i found out about xajax, which is php based.

include this project library and do all your code in php (and maybe teeny tiny bit of javascript), it will do everything else for you.

it’s open source. it’s free!

even though V0.5 is still in beta, it’s trialled on a production site without any problems. list of V0.5 functions here. if you’re worried about stability, use the stable V0.25.