My situation is quite similar to yours. I've decided to take all future PHP faceless and use GWT to build all client-facing pages. I can communicate with my PHP libraries by passing variables around.
Having done some Object Oriented PHP code, picking up Java hasn't been that difficult. And, as I get better with GWT, I plan on upgrading existing client-facing PHP to GWT. I am looking into tools like extGWT, but haven't made any decisions yet on toolkits. Steven On May 12, 10:23 am, pappfer <papp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm a web programmer. I mainly code in PHP with MySQL and also > familiar with XHTML and CSS. I also have some Java and basic > JavaScript knowledge. > > But I never used Ajax before. I was thinking that it might not worth > to study how Ajax works cause it'd take lots of time and I thought > using a Javascript library would probably be a better choice. I read a > lot about them and I found Dojotoolkit to be the best for me. > But then I read about GWT that it makes super-fast Javascript which > would be great for me and I would also get more into Java. So it > seemed perfect for me. I read the documentation and saw how to make a > simple client application. > > But then as a web programmer the most important thing for me was to > make use of client-server communication to put some Ajax power into my > PHP applications. But I found this part quite difficult. > I use Eclipse PDT and the GWT's Eclipse plugin. I realized that when > creating a new web application and I'm copying my PHP files onto that > application folder I can't use PDT's tool for PHP cause I can only see > the project if I'm using Java perspective. > > Overall, my goal is to put some Ajax power in my PHP applications. For > example I have a website about mobile phones and I store all phones > and all the data in a MySQL database. I want them to be searchable > without reloading the page. Or I want to click on a "Next phone" > button to see the next phone in the database without reloading the > page or a "Compare phones" button and want to compare two selected > phones without reloading the page. > > My questions are: > - Is GWT for me? Or I'd rather use Dojotoolkit or another Javascript > library? > - What's the best way to set up (organize) a PHP project and connect > it with GWT? (I mean folder structure and everything) > - What's the best to use for client-server communication: JSON, XML or > something else? (if I want to do stuffs like at the above examples) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
