Developing Large Web Applications

Foreword
Preface

1. The Tenets
-Managing Complexity
-Modular Components
-Ten Tenets for Large Web Applications

2. Object Orientation
-The Fundamentals of OOP
-Why Object Orientation?
-UML Class Diagrams
-Modeling a Web Page
-Writing the Code
-Achieving Modularity
-Object-Oriented PHP
-Object-Oriented JavaScript

3. Large-Scale HTML
-Modular HTML
-HTML Tags
-XHTML
-RDFa
-HTML 5

4. Large-Scale CSS
-Modular CSS
-Positioning Techniques
-Layouts and Containers
-Other Practices

5. Large-Scale JavaScript
-Modular JavaScript
-Working with the DOM
-Working with Events
-Working with Animation
-An Example: Chained Selection Lists

6. Data Management
-Dynamic Modules
-Data Managers
-Data Using SQL As a Source
-Data Using XML As a Source
-Data from Web Services
-Data in the JSON Format
-Cookies and Forms

7. Large-Scale PHP
-Modular Web Pages
-Working with Pages
-Working with Modules
-Layouts and Containers
-Special Considerations

8. Large-Scale Ajax
-In the Browser
-On the Server
-MVC and Ajax

9. Performance
-Caching Opportunities
-Managing JavaScript
-Distribution of Assets
-Control Over Site Metrics
-Modular Testing

10. Application Architecture
-Thinking Modularly
-Organizing Components
-Architecture and Maintenance

Index