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    There are many times we might want to retrieve some data from the server or database without taking the user away from the current page. One such example of this is when a user is registering for a website and they need to verify if a username is available for use or not. Using an AJAX XMLHttpRequest is a quick and efficient way to check the availability of the username. The javascript XMLHttpRequest retrieves information from the server without using a page refresh.

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    I was tasked a few months ago to rotate an image on a site randomly. Ordinarily this would not be an issue but the image was a css background image and I really didn’t have the ambition to rewrite the css and page html to do this. Thankfully my laziness paid off, because I found a solution while looking through some php code for wordpress.

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