PHP/Ajax

Hey everyone,

I’m really interested in getting into some Ajax type stuff with PHP. Nothing too serious to start, but all my experience with Ajax has been with Portlets so I am not sure how different it is with PHP.

What I want to start is something simple, maybe just a login screen that can check a username and password given against records in a database, if they exist then log the user in (basically just put him into a new page) if not then just put an “invalid username/password” message under the button…

This seems like the easiest way to get started, and if anyone would be willing to help me out, it would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

–d