AJAJ new AJAX acronym? JSON puts the J in AJAJ

Jim from litfuel has a great article on AJAX & JSON. JSON stands for JavaScript Serialized Object Notation. This method results in very compact data, which boosts performance when compared to traditional XML based messaging from server to client.

The technology is very useful if you run a high performance, heavy load server, because it can keep your bandwidth costs down. XML can, sometimes, consume more bandwidth than really needed for most applications. Being able to take a php array and return it as a serialized native Javascript object can be quite powerful and easy! Jim shows you how to do it with a pear class called JSON.php