Ajax wizards in here

**CunningStunt** · 02-22-2010, 02:13 PM

**borked** · 02-22-2010, 02:14 PM

jQuery man, jQuery ;)

The sooner you start using it, the sooner the headaches disappear.

**Jakez** · 02-22-2010, 02:15 PM

Son of a bitch.

What's jquery got to do with this though? That shit looks way out of wack, like my headaches would disappear and migraines begin lol. I see a lot of people in google have found the solution by converting to POST, but mine isn't working.

**digitaldivas** · 02-22-2010, 03:25 PM

...or dreamweaver CS4, integrates ajax beautifully

**fris** · 02-22-2010, 07:55 PM

that sure is messy code compared to a few lines of jquery

**Alky** · 02-22-2010, 08:19 PM

Didn't test it at all... and you need to load the jquery libraries.

Code:

Jquery:

<script type="text/javascript">
	$("#isLoading").hide();
	$(document).ready(
        function(keyPage, jsNum, aNum) {
		$("#isLoading").show();
                $.post("/PHP_FILE_TO_CALL.php", { delimiter: $("#delimiter").val(), dump: $("#dump").val() },
                function(response){
			$("#ajaxCol"+jsNum).html(unescape(response));
                });
		$("#isLoading").hide();
        });
    };
</script>

Then just do like in the html:
<span id="isLoading"><img src=ajax.gif></span>

**Azlord** · 02-22-2010, 09:59 PM

It's already been said and solved, but jq is the way to go forsure. There are some nice new ajax features in the newest version (1.4).

**Jakez** · 02-23-2010, 09:38 AM

Best. Forum. Evar.

Is it safe to load the libraries from Google? Hopefully they aren't changing the paths any time soon..

Edit: fuck, need your own API key to load from Google? This jquery shit is looking to be too much of a hassle, if other people are going to be using this then they're going to have to have these libraries installed and shit? Do most servers have this already?

**SmellyNose** · 02-23-2010, 09:48 AM

jQuery is amazing - Use it immediately!

Get jQuery from jquery.com, don't include it from Google.

**fris** · 02-23-2010, 09:51 AM

Originally posted by Jakez

Best. Forum. Evar.

Is it safe to load the libraries from Google? Hopefully they aren't changing the paths any time soon..

Edit: fuck, need your own API key to load from Google? This jquery shit is looking to be too much of a hassle, if other people are going to be using this then they're going to have to have these libraries installed and shit? Do most servers have this already?

you dont need an api key for jquery.

just direct link to the library, or direct link to it off of jquery.com

http://jet.li/twitter/

this is something i did that uses some jquery to load via search.

**BestXXXPorn** · 02-23-2010, 09:54 AM

Or Prototype :P I'm a big fan of being able to create classes... although I will admit jQuery is pulling ahead in the race. If jQuery UI wasn't so bloated I'd consider switching faster.

**Jakez** · 02-23-2010, 10:04 AM

I don't see any good reasons not to load from Google. People are most likely going to have it cached already..

This jQuery shit is fucking UGLY man.. why does it have to look like this wtf lol.

**Alky** · 02-23-2010, 10:08 AM

Originally posted by Jakez

I don't see any good reasons not to load from Google. People are most likely going to have it cached already..

This jQuery shit is fucking UGLY man.. why does it have to look like this wtf lol.

one reason not to load it from google is you dont have to depend on them....

i think my code is way more sexy then what you originally posted....

**CS-Jay** · 02-23-2010, 10:39 AM

Originally posted by Alky

one reason not to load it from google is you dont have to depend on them....

i think my code is way more sexy then what you originally posted....

I have to agree, Alky's code was way more sexy. Just use jquery, and be a happy camper.

**Jakez** · 02-23-2010, 10:48 AM

Ok I'm reading a bunch of stuff trying to figure all this jQuery mess out. Even though most of the tutorials online expect you to know a ton of shit already, but first..

How do I even call what you gave me within my HTML form?
There's the

function(keyPage, jsNum, aNum)

But no function name to reference? lol

Should I remove the .hide()'s and use something like

$("form#theName").show();

**fris** · 02-23-2010, 11:01 AM

lookup .submit

**seeandsee** · 02-23-2010, 11:13 AM

Originally posted by CunningStunt

hehe where is he now ?!?

**Jakez** · 02-23-2010, 12:14 PM

Originally posted by seeandsee

hehe where is he now ?!?

Who the hell is that? Is it supposed to be some kind of jheri curl - jquery joke? lol

**borked** · 02-23-2010, 01:56 PM

Originally posted by Jakez

Ok I'm reading a bunch of stuff trying to figure all this jQuery mess out. Even though most of the tutorials online expect you to know a ton of shit already, but first..

How do I even call what you gave me within my HTML form?
There's the

But no function name to reference? lol

Should I remove the .hide()'s and use something like

What is it exactly you're trying to do?

If it's a form submit and the div is to show based on submit response, why not use jQuery thickbox. There's got to be one of those examples that fits your needs (scroll down to the last AJAX example)? And damn simple to boot.

**borked** · 02-23-2010, 01:58 PM

Originally posted by BestXXXPorn

Or Prototype :P I'm a big fan of being able to create classes... although I will admit jQuery is pulling ahead in the race. If jQuery UI wasn't so bloated I'd consider switching faster.

I was Prototype all the way till around 10 months ago I stumbled on jQuery and was fully sold. Especially its ability to interact with PHP scripts via AJAX using JSON arrays is just heaven.

**Jakez** · 02-24-2010, 03:01 PM

Ok I managed to get something extremely simplified so that even I can understand it and someone can hopefully understand what I'm trying to do lol. Only one problem I have. I want the jQuery to just display whatever the PHP sends back to it, instead of having to go through all the json crap and having the jQuery handle what gets shown. Ex (I use tabs so the indents are gone sry):

The js/jquery:

The HTML:

<form id="target" action="javascript:readPage('page.php?a=do_this', 1, 1);">
Delimiter: <input name="delimiter" value="|" size=1><br>
<input type=submit value="Next">
</form>

<div id="ajaxCol1" style="display:inline;"></div>

And the PHP:

<?php
if($_GET['a']=="do_this")
{
$return_json = "{'delimiter':'".$_POST['delimiter']."'}";
echo $return_json;
}
?>

Should I just change the:
$return_json = "{'delimiter':'".$_POST['delimiter']."'}";

and make it send all the HTML/etc I want to display? Like:
$everything="<b>blah blah blah ".$_POST['delimiter']."</b>";
$return_json = "{'everything':'$everything'}";

Edit: it works^ I guess I will just do it that way, but idk if it's the wrong way or it doesn't matter or what. I just don't want to handle all the printing and HTML in jquery because it's really going to clutter a lot of shit up. And having to rename all the $_POST's is just stupid imo I don't really understand the whole json thing.

**nation-x** · 02-24-2010, 03:40 PM

You don't have to use json

**Jakez** · 02-24-2010, 03:46 PM

Ok I replaced the <input> field with a textarea and it won't print anything if I have more than 1 line of text inside the textarea... what the faaaaaaack!

**nation-x** · 02-24-2010, 03:52 PM

below is your function changed to return html

Code:

$.post("ajaxwork.php?a=import_videos", $("#target").serialize(),
   function(data){
     $("#ajaxCol"+jsNum).html(data);
   }, "html");

Originally posted by Jakez

Ok I replaced the <input> field with a textarea and it won't print anything if I have more than 1 line of text inside the textarea... what the faaaaaaack!

try using

Code:

echo htmlentities($return_json);

**Jakez** · 02-24-2010, 04:36 PM

Changing the json to html makes it show nothing, no matter what I try to pass to it..

Edit: json_encode() seems to do the trick.

Edit 2: Well I finally got it to work with the multiple textarea lines, but now I'm back to the original problem where ajax wouldn't POST a large paragraph of text, and this jquery is passing even less text through, this is ridiculous..

**Jakez** · 02-24-2010, 05:01 PM

Ok it's only returning a limited amount of text because of ' (single quotes) within the text.

I already have json_encode(nl2br($_POST['text_dump'])) what else? htmlentities and htmlspecialchars aren't helping.

**Jakez** · 02-24-2010, 05:31 PM

Here we go
json_encode(nl2br(str_replace("'","& #39;",$_POST['text_dump'])))

I just wanted to be able to send an FLV dump of text via ajax and I had to go through all this crap lol.

**nation-x** · 02-24-2010, 05:47 PM

I made you an example...

http://lifestyleamateurs.com/test.php

this is the php script I am posting to.

Code:

<?php

$galleries = preg_split("/\r?\n|\r/", $_POST['textarea']);

foreach($galleries as $gallery) {
	list($url, $description) = explode('|', $gallery);
	echo "<a href='{$url}'>{$description}</a><br>\n";
}
?>

**nation-x** · 02-24-2010, 05:58 PM

btw... if you are going to be working with Ajax I highly recommend firebug... it's really your best tool for debugging ajax calls.

**quantum-x** · 02-25-2010, 12:47 AM

Originally posted by Jakez

Here we go
json_encode(nl2br(str_replace("'","& #39;",$_POST['text_dump'])))

I just wanted to be able to send an FLV dump of text via ajax and I had to go through all this crap lol.

You shouldn't have to worry about that - that's an horrendous way to 'escape' text.
Your server doesn't have magic_quote or some abomination on does it ?

If you're looking to secure text for a database insert, mysql_real_escape_string()

**CunningStunt** · 02-25-2010, 12:51 AM

Originally posted by seeandsee

hehe where is he now ?!?

"Considering his options" apparently (= burnt out and finished)

Bump for the code monkeys.

**nation-x** · 02-25-2010, 03:28 AM

Originally posted by quantum-x

magic_quote or some abomination on does it ?

thx for the laugh this morning

I pee my pants over the fact that so many large hosts have magic_quotes_gpc enabled by default.

**fris** · 02-25-2010, 05:32 AM

now i know why babelogger is so horribly coded ;)

**Jakez** · 02-25-2010, 08:55 AM

Originally posted by nation-x

I made you an example...

http://lifestyleamateurs.com/test.php

this is the php script I am posting to.

Code:

<?php

$galleries = preg_split("/\r?\n|\r/", $_POST['textarea']);

foreach($galleries as $gallery) {
	list($url, $description) = explode('|', $gallery);
	echo "<a href='{$url}'>{$description}</a><br>\n";
}
?>

THAT's what I'm talkin' about! lol. Using the html instead of json wasn't working before but the example you made is perfect.

And yeah certifiedhosting did have magic quotes on, just turned it off. I also installed firebug a couple days ago but haven't restarted firefox yet since I have like 30 damn tabs open.

Thanks a million, hopefully I won't have to come back here and 'bug' ya'll again lol.

**nation-x** · 02-25-2010, 10:26 AM

Originally posted by Jakez

THAT's what I'm talkin' about! lol. Using the html instead of json wasn't working before but the example you made is perfect.

And yeah certifiedhosting did have magic quotes on, just turned it off. I also installed firebug a couple days ago but haven't restarted firefox yet since I have like 30 damn tabs open.

Thanks a million, hopefully I won't have to come back here and 'bug' ya'll again lol.

It's cool... I sent you an icq, btw.

Ajax wizards in here

Ajax wizards in here

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