Steve Marx has been working behind the scenes on building out a community project to create native PHP support for the Microsoft AJAX Library. Today he released the first version. He provides a ton of details in this post which I steal liberally from below.
First download ASP.NET AJAX or grab just the client side Microsoft AJAX Library
Second, check out the codeplex project
Third, code away -- you can contribute bugs, code and more at the CodePlex site -- I think this is pretty darn cool and when you think about this in terms of our FastCGI work on IIS things are getting very cool for developers in any language/platform.
Check out this HelloWorld sample code:
<?php
require_once '../../dist/MSAjaxService.php';
class HelloService extends MSAjaxService
{
function SayHello($name)
{
return "Hello, " . $name . "!";
}
}
$h = new HelloService();
$h->ProcessRequest();
?>
index.html:
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello, World!</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/archive/2007/01/23/../../MicrosoftAjaxLibrary/MicrosoftAjax.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/archive/2007/01/23/HelloService.php/js"></script>
</head>
<body>
Name: <input id="name" type="text" />
<input type="button" value="Say Hello" onclick="button_click(); return false;" />
<br />
Response from server: <span id="response"></span>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function button_click() {
HelloService.SayHello($get('name').value, function (result) {
$get('response').innerHTML = result;
});
}
</script>
</html>
Definitely let us know what you think!
