mtorbin Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Morning folks, I'm trying to transfer my knowledge of php to ajax to accomplish what I believe should be a very easy goal. I am trying to get the contents of an html page loaded into a variable. Normally I would have done this with PHP but in this case, I really need to use AJAX or the Prototype.js framework to accomplish this. Here's what I'd like to do in PHP: <?php $myURL = "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/"; $myContents = file_get_contents($myURL); ?> Can something like this be done in AJAX? I've been looking for tutorials but they don't quite cover (from what I've read) what I want to do. Thanks, - MT Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/197858-getting-an-http-response-using-ajax/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 I've never used the prototype framework (usually jQuery) but found this within about 10 seconds on there site. new Ajax.Request('/your/url', { onSuccess: function(response) { // yada yada yada } }); Its probably best to at least check the manual of the framework your using before wasting your time waiting for a response on a forum. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/197858-getting-an-http-response-using-ajax/#findComment-1038323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Oh, and the man page if your interested in investigating further. http://api.prototypejs.org/ajax/ajax/request/ Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/197858-getting-an-http-response-using-ajax/#findComment-1038324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtorbin Posted April 7, 2010 Author Share Posted April 7, 2010 I definitely checked that but it didn't seem to do what I wanted it to do. I was able to get back the responseText and status, but not the HTML of the actual page. Here is the quick script I tested yesterday: <script type="text/javascript"> new Ajax.Request('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/', { onSuccess: function(response) { alert(response.responseText.length); } }); </script> response is an object and the attribute that seemed most appropriate was responseText. As you can see it's returning a length of zero. - MT Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/197858-getting-an-http-response-using-ajax/#findComment-1038327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtorbin Posted April 7, 2010 Author Share Posted April 7, 2010 If you have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I feel like I'm at an impasse here with this. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/197858-getting-an-http-response-using-ajax/#findComment-1038345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtorbin Posted April 7, 2010 Author Share Posted April 7, 2010 In case anyone is wondering, I was able to figure it out using jQuery and an open API (though I'd rather use the tinyurl api instead): <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="jQuery.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="result"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> function TweetThis(bigurl){ $.getJSON( "http://json-tinyurl.appspot.com/?&callback=?", {url: bigurl}, function(data){ alert(data.tinyurl); } ); } TweetThis("http://www.phpfreaks.com/"); </script> </body> </html> Now I just need to convert this to prototype.js and I'm most of the way there. - MT Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/197858-getting-an-http-response-using-ajax/#findComment-1038368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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