New to ajax

[_maarten]

Hi,

 

I'm new to ajax and I'm trying to make an application with Zend framework.

What I want to do is the following:

 

I have 2 boxes with information, each with an edit button.

I want to be able to edit those boxes on the same page, and I want to use overlay forms (so I'm probably going to use dijit / dojo)

 

The way I see it is that I just generate the forms on that page, and use javascript to make them popup, the form itself does a submit to a controller that return a status code.

When the status code is ok, the overlay closes, and I want the box to reload the information from the database.

 

I was planning on making a controller that outputs data in XML (or another format) and have Javascript construct my content (lets say in this case a user table)

and upon form submission I would then to an .innerHTML = function_that_fetches_xml_and_generates_table;

 

Is this a good idea or is this a bad way of using javascript / ajax?

[trq]

That is the general gist of what can be done with Ajax. Personally I would use jQuery as my Js framework and json (instead of xml) as my data type.

[_maarten]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your reply !

I looked it up and I'll indeed be using Zend_JSON  .. thanks!

 

My preference also goes to jQuery , but I was thinking that it would be easier to use the Dojo library that comes with the Zend framework, or is that not advisable ?

[trq]

If your preference is with jQuery I'd stick with that. I don't use Zend that often but I've never bothered with it's Dojo stuff, it's just not needed IMO.

[the182guy]

You don't even need the Zend JSON implementation, all you need is json_encode() and json_decode()

[_maarten]

You don't even need the Zend JSON implementation, all you need is json_encode() and json_decode()

 

thanks, I found that too yesterday and it's working nicely!

[Kathleen7Ward]

I am here to know about... how to start ajax application?? i am working in PHP but i  have no idea about Ajax...

[_maarten]

I am here to know about... how to start ajax application?? i am working in PHP but i  have no idea about Ajax...

 

so you're in my shoes then? what do you want to make with ajax?