Jquery and PHP Introduction
Jquery and PHP Introduction
1.What is jQuery?
jQuery is a lightweight, "write less, do more", JavaScript library. The purpose of
jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website. jQuery takes a
lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish and
wraps them into methods that you can call with a single line of code.
jQuery also simplifies a lot of the complicated things from JavaScript, like
AJAX calls and DOM manipulation. The jQuery library contains the following
features:
HTML/DOM manipulation
CSS manipulation
HTML event methods
Effects and animations
AJAX
Utilities
Why jQuery?
There are lots of other JavaScript libraries out there, but jQuery is probably the
most popular, and also the most extendable. Many of the biggest companies on the
Web use jQuery, such as:
Google
Microsoft
IBM
Netflix
2. What is PHP?
PHP is an acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". PHP is a widely used,
open-source scripting language. PHP scripts are executed on the server. PHP is
free to download and use. PHP is an amazing and popular language!
It is powerful enough to be at the core of the biggest blogging system on the web
(WordPress)! It is deep enough to run large social networks! It is also easy enough
to be a beginner's first server-side language!