The brain child of developer John Resig jQuery was first announced at BarCamp NYC in early 2006. Resig noted on his web site, that he created jQuery because he was unhappy with the currently available libraries and felt that they could be vastly improved by reducing “syntactic fluff” and adding specific controls for common actions. jQuery was a big hit in the development community and quickly gained momentum. Other developers came on to help refine the library, ultimately resulting in the first stable release of jQuery, version 1.0, on August 26, 2006. Since then, jQuery has progressed to version 1.4.2 (at the time of this writing) and has seen a huge influx of plug-ins from the development community. A plug-in is an extension of jQuery that isn’t part of the core library. With this book as your guide, you’ll able to Combining jQuery with PHP Applications.
