Ajax not working on IIS local server

Z.K. · September 6, 2009

I have this sample ajax code and I cannot get it to work. I was wondering if someone might be able to help me as I don't really see anything wrong with it and it supposedly works. I put a bunch of alert messages just to see where it was going and the problem appears to be in the script inside the html file. This line:

options = xmlDocument.getElementsByTagName("option");

does not put anything in the options variable so I am thinking that it is not getting the data from the options3.php file for some reason, but I am unsure as to why. I have these files on my IIS server which has successfully run asp.net, php, javascript and even perl. So, I don't think it is the server, but I am not sure as I am not a wiz with IIS.

Any help would be appreciated. I need to get this working for an ajax class I am taking.

:confused:

options3.html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<title>Passing data using Ajax, POST, and XML</title>

var options;

var XMLHttpRequestObject = false;

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {

XMLHttpRequestObject = new XMLHttpRequest();

} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {

XMLHttpRequestObject = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

}

function getoptions(scheme)

{

var url = "options3.php";

//alert("hello");

if(XMLHttpRequestObject)

{

XMLHttpRequestObject.open("POST", url);

XMLHttpRequestObject.setRequestHeader('Content-Type',

'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

alert("hello2");

XMLHttpRequestObject.onreadystatechange = function()

{

if (XMLHttpRequestObject.readyState == 4 && XMLHttpRequestObject.status == 200)

{

var xmlDocument = XMLHttpRequestObject.responseXML;

options = xmlDocument.getElementsByTagName("option");

listoptions();

alert("hello3");

}

XMLHttpRequestObject.send("scheme=" + scheme);

}

function listoptions ()

{

alert("hello4");

var loopIndex;

var selectControl = document.getElementById('optionList');

alert(options.length);

alert("hello4b");

for (loopIndex = 0; loopIndex < options.length; loopIndex++ )

{

alert("hello5a");

selectControl.options[loopIndex] = new Option(options[loopIndex].firstChild.data);

alert("hello5");

if(loopIndex == 0)

alert("hello6");

}

function setoption()

{

document.getElementById('targetDiv').style.color =

options[document.getElementById

('optionList').selectedIndex].firstChild.data;

}

</script>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Passing data using Ajax, POST, and XML</h1>

<select size="1" id="optionList"

onchange="setoption()">

<option id ="option" name="option">Select a scheme</option>

</select>

<input type = "button" value = "Use color scheme 1"

onclick = "getoptions('1')" />

<input type = "button" value = "Use color scheme 2"

onclick = "getoptions('2')" />

</form>

<div id="targetDiv" style=" width:100; height:100">Set the color of this text.</div>

</body>

</html>

options3.php:

<?

if(isset($_POST["scheme"])){

header("Content-type: text/xml");

if ($_POST["scheme"] == "1")

$options = array('red', 'green', 'blue');

if ($_POST["scheme"] == "2")

$options = array('black', 'white', 'orange');

echo '<?xml version="1.0"?>';

echo '<options>';

foreach ($options as $value)

{

echo '<option>';

echo $value;

echo '</option>';

}

echo '</options>';

}

?>

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