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JavaScript

JSON and SQL

Hello, I din't understand the difference between AJAX Json and SQL server... Can I use the Json to get from SQL and get from that?

2 Answers

AJAX is the name for JavaScript techniques that allow you to download resources from a server and update a webpage without refreshing it.

JSON is a way of organizing data that is very easy to use with JavaScript.

Using a server-side language, like PHP, you can get data from a database like an SQL database and convert it into the JSON format.

Combining all these together, you can using AJAX to request data from a PHP file on you server, which can send data from your SQL database in the form of JSON that you can now interact with using JavaScript. All of this without having to refresh the page.

Thank you very much for the explain! Helped a lot!