AjaxWordPro: a multi-user web-based editor

• Student: Kausalya Madhusudhanan (2008).
• Purpose: Create a text editor that is accessible solely through the web that allows multiple users to simultaneously edit the same document, keeping each user aware of the work done by others, and locking regions of the document to prevent inconsistencies.
• Method: Modify an open-source editor written in JavaScript by introducing plugins for capturing important key-presses and handling asynchronous (AJAX) communication with the server. The server uses PHP and a mySQL database.
• What the student learned
  1. Server-side scripting: PHP
  2. Concurrency control via locking
  3. The AJAX techqnique
  4. Technical writing
  Code and documentation can be found at this site.