gamesmstr Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 While doing some late night developing, I got very tired of having to write a new ajax script for every new condition I had in a page, so I decided to see what I could do about making 1 function to handle any data I wanted to pass. And so I did. It worked so well, I thought I'd share here and see if any of you could 1) improve it or 2) use it. The format to call it is: AJAX(TargetContainer,Filename,Variable1+variable2+...,FormField1+FormField2+...) Take a look and let me know what you think. <script type="text/javascript"> function createXMLHttpRequest() { if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != 'undefined') { return new XMLHttpRequest(); } try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { try { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) {} } return false; } function AJAX(target,filename,vars,fields) { var maindiv = createXMLHttpRequest(); var params = ''; if (vars != ''){ var varval=vars.split("+"); for(var i = 0;i < varval.length;i++){ if (params == ''){ params=params + "varval" + i + "=" + varval[i]; } else { params=params + "&varval" + i + "=" + varval[i]; } } } if (fields != ''){ var field=fields.split("+"); var fieldval=new Array(field.length); for(var i = 0;i < field.length;i++){ fieldval[i]=document.getElementById(field[i]).value; if (params == ''){ params=params + "fieldval" + i + "=" + fieldval[i]; } else { params=params + "&fieldval" + i + "=" + fieldval[i]; } } } maindiv.open("POST",filename, true); maindiv.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); maindiv.onreadystatechange = function() { if(maindiv.readyState == 4 && maindiv.status == 200) { document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = maindiv.responseText; refresh_stats(); } } maindiv.send(params); } </script> If anyone wants to use it, feel free! Just credit me. Gabriel Pettit Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/213537-universal-ajax-script/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamesmstr Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 I forgot to mention something. The variables passed will be varval0, varval1,... and the field values will be fieldval0,fieldval1,... just use the $_POST method to retrieve them. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/213537-universal-ajax-script/#findComment-1111551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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