The world's most comprehensive, easiest, flexible and smallest Ajax Framework written in PHP.
"Imagine being able to control all aspects of your application through back-high-end code, without client worries" -cj
Top 3 countries downloading
- United States 22%
- India 17%
- China 9%
Cjax is an MVC (Model-View-Controller) oriented, lightweight (>100kb) ajax framework aimed at PHP applications/sites. It allows you to literally execute JavaScript with PHP, sounds facinating - eh?
Well it's true (You may test some demos).
Cjax is self explanatory, just by looking at the syntax you can tell right away what is it doing, and what's best about it is that, that's all there is to it; there is no Javascript to produce or inline codes in your html, just plain and simple PHP, Cjax takes care of the rest through its sofisticated data processor.
Cjax is a complete interpreter/generator that uses a combination of data services including xml/json - Cjax comes with a very basic API that is covered through documentation. Cjax developement has been paintaking, for example the minute that it starts being loose or complicated or slow or the likes, it is re-written to meet the highest standards, while being innovative and keeping the goals in place. There would be no point of it it was otherwise. Yes very demanding, that is why we are convinced that it can speed up your ajax development by 60% once you learn the API and become accustomed.
There are many things that are unique that require JavaScript still that may not be covered by Cjax's API, here is where Cjax's plugins come in. Cjax Plugins are hybrid and very powerful and as flexible as you build them. Allow you to create scalable functionality in PHP and provide you with the means, data transport and API to interact with JavaScript in a scalable way, allow you to create your own plugin controller, classes, Javascript files, css, and import other JavaScript all with the usual simplistic Cjax's way using 'Convention Over Configuration' pattern, with one line of code most of the time. Cjax plugin API can be tricky to learn at first but if you start with the basics and use Plugin Docs and examples available you can build comprehensive plugins that can be as powerful as any part of the framework itself.
Another feature Cjax offers is that it allows you to (without eval) access JavaScript functions, objects, elements, and properies through PHP - even if they are not from Cjax, yes anything on the page. With a simple and generic Syntax like the rest of the APIs, see example.
Cjax Lives in harmony with other frameworks and it complements PHP Frameworks such as Cakephp, CodeIgnater, Zend, and can be installed on any website or application in tops 5 minutes.
It is compatible with most of all modern web browsers, and it requires zero configuration. Forget Inline Javascript, forget snipets, Cjax processess your page in Event Listeners, and also is fully compatible with jQuery and easy to integrate with other 3rd party JavaScript libraries or frameworks, but requires none.
While there are other options online that may allow you to interact with ajax and php, there is nothing - and I mean nothing even close or that can compare to Cjax's core. The first and most "popular" options you'll find take 10 to 20 times more code to accomplish what Cjax's does with one line of code, and not to mention the footprint they leave on your pages. Not to brag but none of them include some of the most basic features you find in Cjax, such as it's MVC design, while Cjax is smaller in size!. Likely 20 more reasons!
Before you download the framework, We'd like you to get familiar how to set it up and get it working so that you don't end up stuck, that would beat the purpose wouldn't it? You may also review Cjax's documentation.
To avoid confusion between releases, we are listing the available downloads here:
Here are the steps to get the framework installed on your site, or test installation:
Go onto your browser and type in the url for your site, plus testing.php?test/test, eg: http://yoursite.com/testing.php?test/test
If you see the text "Ajax View..." on your browser, that means you have successfully installed and tested the ajax framework.
You may find the text in file controllers/test.php in function test(). If your installation was successful you may delete file testing.php.
Download
Some of the demos described below are "clikable".
The zip includes some Ajax samples and Usage samples of the Cjax API and full samples source code. Some demos are:
Upload Files through Ajax, Making ajax requests, Submitting forms with ajax, Overlays Lightboxes, Dialog, Cross Domain Ajax, Messaging, Search, and others.
Cjax's documentation is available and you should definitely go through it if you intend to use Cjax.
Cjax is self explanatory, just by looking at the syntax you can tell right away what is it doing, and what's best about it is that, that's all there is to it; there is no Javascript to produce or inline codes in your html, just plain and simple PHP, Cjax takes care of the rest through its sofisticated data processor.
Cjax is a complete interpreter/generator that uses a combination of data services including xml/json - Cjax comes with a very basic API that is covered through documentation. Cjax developement has been paintaking, for example the minute that it starts being loose or complicated or slow or the likes, it is re-written to meet the highest standards, while being innovative and keeping the goals in place. There would be no point of it it was otherwise. Yes very demanding, that is why we are convinced that it can speed up your ajax development by 60% once you learn the API and become accustomed.
There are many things that are unique that require JavaScript still that may not be covered by Cjax's API, here is where Cjax's plugins come in. Cjax Plugins are hybrid and very powerful and as flexible as you build them. Allow you to create scalable functionality in PHP and provide you with the means, data transport and API to interact with JavaScript in a scalable way, allow you to create your own plugin controller, classes, Javascript files, css, and import other JavaScript all with the usual simplistic Cjax's way using 'Convention Over Configuration' pattern, with one line of code most of the time. Cjax plugin API can be tricky to learn at first but if you start with the basics and use Plugin Docs and examples available you can build comprehensive plugins that can be as powerful as any part of the framework itself.
Another feature Cjax offers is that it allows you to (without eval) access JavaScript functions, objects, elements, and properies through PHP - even if they are not from Cjax, yes anything on the page. With a simple and generic Syntax like the rest of the APIs, see example.
Cjax Lives in harmony with other frameworks and it complements PHP Frameworks such as Cakephp, CodeIgnater, Zend, and can be installed on any website or application in tops 5 minutes.
It is compatible with most of all modern web browsers, and it requires zero configuration. Forget Inline Javascript, forget snipets, Cjax processess your page in Event Listeners, and also is fully compatible with jQuery and easy to integrate with other 3rd party JavaScript libraries or frameworks, but requires none.
Why is Cjax Superior?
While there are other options online that may allow you to interact with ajax and php, there is nothing - and I mean nothing even close or that can compare to Cjax's core. The first and most "popular" options you'll find take 10 to 20 times more code to accomplish what Cjax's does with one line of code, and not to mention the footprint they leave on your pages. Not to brag but none of them include some of the most basic features you find in Cjax, such as it's MVC design, while Cjax is smaller in size!. Likely 20 more reasons!
Lets get to the fun part...
Before you download the framework, We'd like you to get familiar how to set it up and get it working so that you don't end up stuck, that would beat the purpose wouldn't it? You may also review Cjax's documentation.
Latest Release
5.1-Stable was released on Sep 16, 2012, See release Notes.Download
To avoid confusion between releases, we are listing the available downloads here:
- Cjax Framework Files Latest: CJAXFW_5.1-Stable.zip
- AJAXFW FOR CodeIgnater Files Latest: AJAXFW_4CI_5.1-Stable.zip
- Demos/Samples for all releases Download Demos/Samples Files
- Plugins for all releases: Download Plugins Files
- Plugins API downloads: Download API/Docs Files
Install
Here are the steps to get the framework installed on your site, or test installation:
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Looking for CodeIgniter Installation Instruction? Go here.
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1. After you have downloaded the latest release-
Place the contents of the zip on the root of the site merging it with your current site.
So you'd end up with your current structure plus:/ cjax/ controllers/ ajax.php testing.php
- You are set. Now lets test...
Upgrading
Using an older version?. To upgrade simply download the newest version and overwrite all Cjax files, in most cases that should be enough to upgrade to a newer version.Testing your Cjax Installation
For security reasons you cannot access ajax.php directly on your browser, but that is why we include testing.php.Go onto your browser and type in the url for your site, plus testing.php?test/test, eg: http://yoursite.com/testing.php?test/test
If you see the text "Ajax View..." on your browser, that means you have successfully installed and tested the ajax framework.
You may find the text in file controllers/test.php in function test(). If your installation was successful you may delete file testing.php.
Download 20+Demos/Samples included in demos zip
Download
What's included in the zip?
Before you download the Demos/Samples, make sure you have successfully installed the ajax framework.Some of the demos described below are "clikable".
The zip includes some Ajax samples and Usage samples of the Cjax API and full samples source code. Some demos are:
Upload Files through Ajax, Making ajax requests, Submitting forms with ajax, Overlays Lightboxes, Dialog, Cross Domain Ajax, Messaging, Search, and others.
How to use the demos/samples
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Place the "examples" folder included in the zip in your root installation,
and access it by going to your site url: yoursite.com/examples. Make sure the Ajax Framework is installed before you try to test the samples.
Documentation
Cjax's documentation is available and you should definitely go through it if you intend to use Cjax.
Featured Cjax Plugins
Download PluginsPlugins Docs/APIs
Featured Demos
- Recursive Ajax Requests
- Ajax Upload Files
- Load External HTML
- POST Ajax
- Ajax Form
- Response Messages
- Overlay Lightboxes
- Timeouts and wait()
- Ajax Search
- Simple Ajax Request
- Update Elements/Containers
