Improve your PHP applications by improving their response through jQuery and its plugins. Combining jQuery with the client-side server-side PHP to make your application more efficient and fun to clientLearn about some of the most popular jQuery plugins and methodsCreate strong user interface and responsive to your samples applicationsComplete PHP PHP and jQuery with jQuery JavaScript explanationsNo obvious expertise or experience required In Detail To create PHP applications that respond quickly, avoid unnecessary reloading the page, and provide a great user interface, often require complex JavaScript techniques and even then, if you get that far, they may not even work in different browsers! With jQuery, you can use one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, forget about cross-browser issues, and simplify the creation of the interface that is very strong and responsive - all with minimum code. This is the first book in the market that will allow server-side PHP coder to the world of client-side JavaScript library jQuery popular. This book will show you how to use jQuery to enhance your PHP application, with many examples of user interfaces using jQuery jQuery UI library, and other examples that use the popular jQuery plugins. This book also provides practical demonstrations of PHP and jQuery and explain the examples, not the beginning of how the JavaScript work and how it differs from PHP. At the end of this book, you should be able to take PHP applications you have written, and turned it into an interface, responsive user-friendly, with the ability you would not dream to be able to achieve, all in just a few lines of JavaScript. What you will learn from this book? Integrating jQuery into tabs and accordions applicationsAdd PHP using jQuery-UI project to make your pages easy for local and remotelyEnhance readValidate form of existing forms of control, optimize large select-box, build a column for forms.Manipulate automatically show you a picture of non-destructivelyManage your files and your own jQuery directoriesCreate pluginsWrite a weekly calendarUse drag / drop mechanism to sort the list and create menusPaginate hierarchical, order, and searching large sets of data Approach This book takes a practical approach to integrate PHP and jQuery, shows examples of each point discussed.