I have an ajax->autoComplete working dandy with cakePHP. Now I want to add my own javascript (preferably callback methods) after the request has been executed. I know that there are options associated with the ajaxHelper but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to apply them to the autoComplete function. I can get ajax->autoComple...
How can you dynamically generate a .doc file using AJAX? Python? Adobe AIR? I'm thinking of a situation where an online program/desktop app takes in user feedback in article form (a la wiki) in Icelandic character encoding and then upon pressing a button releases a .doc file containing the user input for the webpage. Any solutions/sugges...
Lets say I have an array of javascript objects, and I am trying to pass those objects to a php page to save them into a database. I have no problems passing a variable to the php and using $_POST["entries"] on that variable but I can't figure out how to pass an entire array of objects, so I can access my objects.entryId and .mediaType va...
Hey, Before my form initiates an AJAX request, I want to call a function. I see that for link_ to_remote there is the handy :before option... "Called before request is initiated." here is my source: <% form_remote_for(@news, :url => {:action => 'create'}) do |f| %> Before the request is initiated, I want to call myFunction() Thank...
I have a variety of image sets that I'm displaying on a web page (say 50 images per set). A user may select a set to display from a list, which is loaded via a jQuery ajax call to remove the old img tags and add the new ones. What I'm seeing is that all of the requests for the first batch of stale images still get pulled from the ser...
Our company is starting a major re factor of its front end Javascript code. We have decided to use Extjs as a framework and would like to invest in some training for several of our employees. We are mostly looking for Extjs specific material, but some advanced architecture wouldn't hurt. We are happy to fly our employees on location.The ...
I've been wondering if there is a real advantage to using COMET / push-technologies over the much simpler polling with long requests where the server will wait a certain maximum time for new events to happen before telling the clients that nothing happened. Both technologies have similar client latencies and while common wisdom is that ...
I want to make an ajax call, but I want to make sure it will be cached. I am using jquery. Is there a way to make sure the request stays in the cache for most popular browsers? ...
Hi I have an ajax script which validates the users information put into textboxes. This is working fine in Internet Explorer, but in FireFox I get an error in getting the gender from a listbox. I have got the gender to be placed into a hidden textbox, for easier processing. The error I get in FF is dd is null [Break on this error] thein...
I made a website that depends on PHP, AJAX and Javascript. The problem here is that the website is unstable which means sometimes the validation is working and some times it is not working at all. The validation code is written in JavaScript. Does this mean that we need more special conditions? The code for validation: <script langua...
I'm having trouble getting the correct scope within prototype's Ajax.Request class. What I'm trying to do is write a simple API which wraps ajax requests: API = Class.create({ initialize:function(api_token) { this.api_token = api_token; this.request_uri = new Template('/api/#{api_token}/#{resource}.json'); this.status =...
To be clear: I am not asking how to put existing hooks onto new DOM elements. I know about the live() function and the old livequery plugin. I am asking something else. What I want to know is how to hook onto the very creation of new DOM elements. The reason I'm asking is I'm creating a third-party user JS script that doesn't have co...
I have signed up(paid) for Google site search. They have me a url of a sort of web service where I can send a query to it, it searches my site, and it returns XML of the search results. Well I am trying to load this XML via Ajax from a page on my site but I cannot. I can load from any of my pages on my domain so I am assuming it is becau...
I'm loading some HTML via Ajax with this format: <div id="div1"> ... some content ... </div> <div id="div2"> ...some content... </div> ... etc. I need to iterate over each div in the response and handle it separately. Having a separate string for the HTML content of each div mapped to the id would satisfy my requirements. However,...
Hello, I am using ASP.NET MVC and want to update content on my page based on the selected value of an HtmlHelper.DropDownList. I have an Admin page on which I would like to display a list of hired employees for a given semester, without having to redirect to another controller. Perhaps a table could be generated or a ListBox filled with...
What is the correct way of terminating a servlet that doesn't return any data to the client? The purpose of the servlet in question is to recive some data from an Ajax request and fire off a TCP message to a piece of hardware to tell it to change it's state. Do you have to specify a response at all? I've opted for getting a reference ...
I have a page which should show a form with checkboxes, post back if it is checked or not, store the result in the database, and then on next loading of the page show the checkbox as checked, and update it as unchecked as necessary. I understand my solution having the floating "checked" is not ideal, but it works fine, and I want to sti...
I'm trying to add details to a database by using ajax and table dynamic rows. e.g. ---- {Customer: dropdown menu} | {Description: textarea} | delete Add New Customer --- When the user clicks it shows the drop down menu of all available customers. when you click away it just shows the select customer name (not the dropdown menu) ...
I have content on a webpage which is both sent from the server at page load, and updated frequently via AJAX. When it is loaded initally, I use $( function () {} ) to do binding and updating based on the news from the server. I want to be able to also run the code when it is repopulated, in particular to rebind click events and update ...
I have a url string like this: http://www.google.com/cse?cx=017840637368510444960:ny1lmky7r-0&client=google-csbe&output=xml_no_dtd&q=simon+g I need to send this url from ajax to a php script as a single string variable. I am having trouble though because it keeps getting split into several vars because of the vars in the ...