So far PHProjekt 6 (P6, see http://phprojekt.com) is already enhanced with
nice AJAX workflows and snappy user-experience. Nevertheless, we
discussed a way to provide synchronous communication and direct
information within the application.
Everybody knows GoogleMail with its easy to use frontend. Maybe
you use it for your daily work. In GoogleMail, there is no need
to refresh the page to receive a new mail, Google informs you
automatically whenever a new mail is available. But how is this
possible? The answer to this question is really simple: The
server triggers a signal informing that a new mail is available.
This technology is called Comet and describes a way how the
server communicates with the client [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
].
Is there a way to use Comet …
So far PHProjekt 6 (P6, see http://phprojekt.com) is already enhanced with
nice AJAX workflows and snappy user-experience. Nevertheless, we
discussed a way to provide synchronous communication and direct
information within the application.
Everybody knows GoogleMail with its easy to use frontend. Maybe
you use it for your daily work. In GoogleMail, there is no need
to refresh the page to receive a new mail, Google informs you
automatically whenever a new mail is available. But how is this
possible? The answer to this question is really simple: The
server triggers a signal informing that a new mail is available.
This technology is called Comet and describes a way how the
server communicates with the client [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
].
Is there a way to use Comet …
The Term Tagging
The popular feature of 'tagging' content is nothing new. The average netizen should have encountered it by now. Tagging was made popular by sites like del.icio.us and flickr, where users can attach free-form strings, so-called 'tags' to their bookmarks and images. The viewer can then use these tags to navigate through one or more user's contents and locate related content.
Scientific Background
The most-cited work on tagging is this research paper from HP, which starts categorizing tagging as 'folksonomy' (folk taxonomy) in contrast to the conventional term taxonomy. A taxonomy is usually a categorization of content according to a hierarchical and exclusive tree of attributes, while the folksonomy is …
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