Eight Weeks of Prototype: Week 8, A Complete Prototype Example
Introduction
So far in this series, "Eight Weeks of Prototype," I have shown you some of the extensive features the Prototype JavaScript framework provides. In this, the final article of the series, I will bring many of these features together into a simple example.
The example I show you will be an extremely simplified contact manager (address book, whatever you like to call it), in which you can view all contacts and add new contacts.
The example includes element selecting, event handling (including custom events), JavaScript classes and Ajax. Additionally, hopefully the example will serve to show you how JavaScript files can be structured and accessed in a scalable web application.
In order to use this code yourself you will need access to a web server with PHP 5 and MySQL. Note, however, that the important concepts in this article relate to the JavaScript code, so adapting the PHP code to instead use your preferred server configuration is not a problem.