AJAX development

[simplistik]

So... there are some of us who like interactivity and well... just plain HTML, xHTML w/ CSS just doesn't cut it. So in my pursuit to find different ways of including interactivity into my web standard sites I've been doin lately. I was wondering if there is anyone who has some good resources for some AJAX or AJAX based scripts?

I've googled, however I get A LOT of junk, and quite frankly I don't want to end up on 100th "o" of the google search b4 I find anything useful.

I'm aware of http://script.aculo.us/ and that's about it :lol:

One script I'm looking specifically looking for ATM, is a script that allows you to makes appear on a current page w/o the use of an iframe, or a hidden DIV (I think) and w/o a page refresh. Any help is appriciated ;)

[Jeff Wheeler]

http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest/

Greatest ajax tut on the planet ;)

But in regards to your question, simply google "createElement DOM javascript tutorial"

[Ankou]

http://www.alvit.de/handbook/

Third column there's an AJAX section that has some decent links.

[ironikart]

'pAjax' - ajax client written in php. Writes out javascript client for you. Pretty easy communication between javascript and php functions.

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2520.html

[Jeff Wheeler]

Oooh… haven't seen that. Neat :thumb:

[ironikart]

I think the latest version is php5 only, but there are older version available (just noticed it when I updated my code and my ajax stuff broke!) - Whoever developed it should really consider keeping 2 seperate versions.. or perhaps name them differently.

[simplistik]

Thanks for the responses all, I found a lot of good tutorials and resources that I'm able to use. I'm in the process of creating my WebApp and these things will really help. THX :D


But in regards to your question, simply google "createElement DOM javascript tutorial"
This didn't help me lol... you just sent me right back to google w/ 1000s of related links, which I said I didn't want to do.

[ditt0]

I'm in the process of creating my WebApp and these things will really help.

What are you up to? Tell , tell:)

A few more:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmlhttpreq.html
http://www.minds.nuim.ie/~dez/serendipity/index.php?/archives/29-AJAX-for-the-beginner.html
http://www.ajaxpatterns.org/
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/remote-scripting-ajax
http://www.clearnova.com/ajax/
http://zingzoom.com/ajax/ajax_with_image.php - is that what you wanted?
http://www.ajaxmatters.com/r/welcome
http://www.ajaxian.com/

[simplistik]

What are you up to? Tell , tell:)
Well nothin really special. Since I'm semi-new to JS and more so the AJAX methods, I'm gonna make a client section where clients can view the work I've given them, and make comments back. Right now I have a client section, but it bounces between other pages... so for instance they click on a JPG it loads into a different browser window. I can do it w/ a PHP query too, but once I go a few lvls deep into the file structure for some reason it looses it's paths.

So, instead I'd like to use the AJAX method of innerhtml so I can have it appear in a specified DIV, and not have to worry about things like that. As well as have a comments or feedback form that they will be able to submit, to me so I can see any types of adjustments I might need to make. And perhaps make a draw area so they can circle specific things on the image, or screenshot and note them.

There are a few other things that I want to do to... such as an invoicing system... but that'll be later. I'm not so much interested in all the movement that can be done w/ AJAX as I am not having to refresh a page... which would be stinkin awesome.

Thnx fo the links too :D :thumb2:

[senocular]

links added to client side resources sticky for future reference

[DaveMania]

WO! i was just about to post a thread on ajax!! (didn't know it was called that)
how handy-dandy:thumb:
My favourite example of ajax is probably in Mint. you can see what i mean on demo at www.haveamint.com (http://www.haveamint.com)

[Jeff Wheeler]

Yeah, MINT is cool, but I would never pay for it. It requires you to embed a js script on all your pages :(

[DaveMania]

I know, plus mediatemple has a habbit of sticking annoying extra javascript elements onto your page which are invalid to XHTML 1.0 strict! which, to be frank, just really pisses me off. I haven't bothered finding a way around it yet, though.

[ironikart]

I've been experimenting with AJAX + flash, and finding it pretty nice, but terribly dependant on javascript, and also very dependant on newer browsers that have proper support for xmlhttprequest.

Has anyone installed and used flash remoting components in conjunction with server side code? - reading about it, it does seem an elegant solution and no need for the user to have anything else than a flash player 7 plugin installed. I'd be interested hearing whether anyone has implemented this as an alternative to AJAX...

[ditt0]

I've been experimenting with AJAX + flash, and finding it pretty nice, but terribly dependant on javascript, and also very dependant on newer browsers that have proper support for xmlhttprequest.
Of course it's dependant on Javascript. For a big part of it, it is Javascript.
Afaik, IE7 will have xmlhttprequest as native object, so probably this will make things easier somehow.
Javascript is not so bad, if coded properly. I don't really see why you are rejecting it like it's some kind of plague:)

[DaveMania]

Originally Posted by ditto
Originally Posted by ironikart
I've been experimenting with AJAX + flash, and finding it pretty nice, but terribly dependant on javascript, and also very dependant on newer browsers that have proper support for xmlhttprequest.Of course it's dependant on Javascript. For a big part of it, it is Javascript.
Afaik, IE7 will have xmlhttprequest as native object, so probably this will make things easier somehow.
Javascript is not so bad, if coded properly. I don't really see why you are rejecting it like it's some kind of plague:)
me neither

[GotGoose?]

I use flash remoting to provide a cms on my website. It is very fast and simple to use. It eliminates the need to serialize data into and out of XML.

[simplistik]

I use flash remoting to provide a cms on my website. It is very fast and simple to use. It eliminates the need to serialize data into and out of XML.That's fine for personal things... but a majority of my clients don't want Flash in their sites.

[DaveMania]

Mhm. I agree; I find flash somewhat inaccessible and awkward. I mean, it looks nice and it's very mathematical but does DHTML not satisfy you :puzzled: !?!? (and let's try not to waver too much off the thread topic here)

I'm very eager to start implimenting AJAX into my webmail application i'm working on at the moment. It's going to be a download-and-install-to-your-server program, so everything needs to be top-noch and easilly accessible & understandable. Having AJAX would make the whole system so much faster and smoother. Also it would save me a lot of different header queries. ?view, ?delete, ?markread/unread, ?addfolder, ?folder... the list goes on.