Jim released a new version of MyBic an AJAX+PHP implementation with two major features added : JSON client side encoding and network down handling. JSON is becoming more and more adopted by PHP frameworks since it provide an excellent encoding format to exchange data and complex objects between server and client. The network down handling is a great feature for AJAX applications, and it's interesting that the framework handle it by default, of course you can anytime personalize the displayed error message.

Last night marked the significant release of the My-Bic AJAX/PHP Framework version 0.6. The two major features added are JSON client side encoding and network down handling. Client side JSON encoding will allow you to send more complex structures to your PHP script and they can get converted to normal PHP objects. The other major feature is handling network down issues. For example if your client script cannot get a response back from the server My-Bic will now allow you to define your own network down function or you can use the default method which creates a div on the screen alerting the user of network issues. If there are 3 requests that fail in a row My-Bic disables itself until the page is reloaded. All of those settings are configurable so you can change or override them.