by Laurence Svekis | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release Date: September 2018 | ISBN: 9781789617344

Explore how to create a web application that sends requests to the server for additional data as users scroll the pageAbout This VideoLearn how to set up the structure of your web applicationFind out about creating a PHP database connectionCreate a simple PHP application to populate the database with lorem ipsum textExplore how an API works outputting content from the MySQL database into JSON formatUse PHP code to build a customized JSON outputExplore how easy it is to make AJAX requests with jQueryUse JavaScript to detect scroll and moreAssemble your HTML page dynamicallyExamine how web applications are builtIn DetailInfinite scrolling is a web-design technique that loads content continuously as the user scrolls down the page, eliminating the need for pagination. This technique popular is used on many websites and this course will show you how to build one yourself from scratch. Best of all this course provides a great learning experience on how to develop an API that can return database content into the front end. Prerequisites to this course include working knowledge of jQuery, JavaScript, and PHP. We cover the aspects of the languages needed to create the API endpoint and to query the endpoint for data. One of the best ways to learn to programme is by projects and this project is perfect since it combines the use of multiple technologies within one application so that students get a real-world experience. Source Code is included to get you started quickly. Taught by an instructor with over 18 years of web development experience, ready to help answer any questions you may have. Join now and start building your own applications today.

1. Chapter 1 : Introduction to building projects
   • Infinite scroll introduction 00:07:15
   • Scroll project Resources 00:05:25
   • Setup basic application page 00:03:33
   • Setup Database connection PHP 00:06:18
   • How to populate database with lorem ipsum text PHP 00:10:38
   • Output API contents PHP 00:06:48
   • App development overview PHP 00:03:34
   • Create AJAX call to api jQuery and PHP 00:07:53
   • load api data output it to HTML jQuery 00:05:43
   • debugging and adding offset values PHP 00:07:43
   • jQuery scroll detection 00:02:46
   • Load more entries tweak source code jQuery 00:06:01
   • PHP code Overview 00:08:13
   • jQuery Code review 00:10:01