Are ajax queries fast?

[UrbanDweller]

Hey all,

 

I have finally worked out ajax in jquery since i have only worked with jquery for the past couple of days.

 

Currently i have 4 drop down boxes that populate the one after the next depending on the amount of tables rows the ajax returned, this normally is about 2-6 out of a possible 20-30 in the table. Im sending two mysql queries on select click event.

 

My question is a I have only does local testing so I don't know the response speed to these ajax calls and was wondering if you think there will be much delay from the time sent to the time its recieved and displayed?

 

Thanks

[trq]

There will be a short delay, but it is usually workable.

 

ANother option would be to populate these drop downs from an array of data. Thus eliminating the need for Ajax at all.

[UrbanDweller]

Ajax seemed like the easier way to do this as making a variable 4 arrays deep seems a bit to intricate to especially when the database could get bigger. This way I only have 1 column to search but will require multiple queries. This will only be used as a admin feature to add categories/products so single user access.