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Abstract. The development of a web 2.0 portal using Ajax and jQuery techniques. This paper describes the development of a web portal using technologies like PHP, jQuery and Ajax. Regular web portals simply use PHP and MySQL, which is not enough to provide the interactivity the user needs from a web portal. jQuery technique is designed to change the way you write JavaScript, because it is very compact and easy to use and understand. jQuery is also very popular being used by Google, IBM, NBC, Amazon, Wordpress and many others. Ajax technique is used to increase responsiveness and interactivity of the web pages achieved by exchanging small amounts of data « behind the scenes » so that the entire web pages do not have to be reloaded each time there is a need to fetch data from the server.
Keywords: web portals, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, DOM, XML
I. INTRODUCTION
Web 2.0 seems to be like Pink Floyd lyrics: "it can mean different things to different people, depending on your state of mind" [1]. So Web 2.0 for some people it means moving some of the thinking client side so making it more immediate, but the idea of the Web as interaction between people is really what the Web is. That was what it was designed to be as a collaborative space where people can interact [2]. In fact, it means using the standard which has been produced by all the people working on Web 1.0. It means using the document object model, it means for HTML and SVG and so on, it's using HTTP, so it's building stuff using the Web standards, plus Java script of course.
According to Tim O'Reilly, "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform" [3].
Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of "Web 2.0" have existed since the beginnings of the World Wide Web.
A web portal is a site that provides a single function via a web page or site. Web...