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  1. 1 javascript :: create an xml request object
  2. 2 xmlhttp with testing for various ie versions
  3. 3 Load file into Div via Ajax
  4. 4 Crea Objeto XMLHTTPRequest
  5. 5 Ajax-creaObjeto-XMLHttpRequest
  1. 6 jQuery namespaced event binding/unbinding
  2. 7 jQuery and Rails' respond_to
  3. 8 Ajax / Effects-only link
  4. 9 Never render the full layout in a Rails view when called via AJAX
  5. 10 AJAX multiple updates to calling page without using RJS template

javascript :: create an xml request object

to javascript ajax xml by vindigo on Sep 18, 2008
javascript :: create an xml request object

/* create an xml request object */
function createRequest() 
{
   try
   {
      /* Firefox */
      req = new XMLHttpRequest();
   } 
   catch(err1) 
   {
      try 
      {
         /* some versions IE */
         req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
      } 
      catch (err2)
      {
         try 
         {
            /* other versions IE */
            req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
         }
         catch (err3)
         {
            req = false;
         }
      }
   }
   return req;
}

xmlhttp with testing for various ie versions

to javascript ajax xmlhttp by pwlin on Jul 27, 2008 
var xmlHTTP = getXMLHTTP();

if (xmlHTTP) {
    xmlHTTP.async = false;
    xmlHTTP.open('get', 'http://google.com/');
    xmlHTTP.send(null);

    if (xmlHTTP.status == 200) {
        var data = xmlHTTP.responseText;
    }
}

function getXMLHTTP()
{
    if ((typeof XMLHttpRequest) != "undefined") {
        /* XMLHTTPRequest present, use that */
        return new XMLHttpRequest();
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        /*  there are several versions of IE's Active X control, use the most recent one available */
        var xmlVersions = ["MSXML2.XMLHttp.5.0",
                           "MSXML2.XMLHttp.4.0",
                           "MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0",
                           "MSXML2.XMLHttp",
                           "Microsoft.XMLHTTP"];

        for (var x = 0; x < xmlVersions.length; x++) {
            try {
                var xmlHTTP = new ActiveXObject(xmlVersions[x]);
                return xmlHTTP;     
            } catch (e) {
                //continue looping
            }
        }
    }

    /* if none of that worked, return false, to indicate failure */
    return false;
}

Load file into Div via Ajax

to ajax jquery by kittycruz on Jul 27, 2008
// SCRIPT

$j(document).ready(function() {
	$j('a#ajaxLink').click(function(){
		$j("#ajaxBox").load("public/js/testAjax.html");
	});
});


// HTML
<a id="ajaxLink" href="javascript:;">Load Ajax</a>
<div id="ajaxBox"></div>

Crea Objeto XMLHTTPRequest

to ajax xmlhttprequest by delta14 on Apr 27, 2008 
function ajaxFunction()
{
var xmlhttp;
try
  { 
 	 // Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari 
      xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); 
  }
catch (e)
    { 	 // Internet Explorer  
     try
    {   
     xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); 
    }
    catch (e)
    	{
	 try
     	 {
	  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); 
	 }
   	catch (e)
    	    {
	     alert("Explorador no soporta--------AJAX!");  
	     xmlhttp= false;  
	    }
       }	// fin si no es Internet Explorer
     }   // fin si no es Firefox
return xmlhttp;
} // fin de crear objeto XMLHTTPRequest

Ajax-creaObjeto-XMLHttpRequest

to ajax xmlhttprequest by delta14 on Apr 27, 2008
// description of your code here

Código JavaScript:
/*
*Esta libreria es una libreria AJAX creada por Javier Mellado con la inestimable
*colaboracion de Beatriz Gonzalez.
*y descargada del portal AJAX Hispano http://www.ajaxhispano.com
*contacto javiermellado@gmail.com
*
*Puede ser utilizada, pasada, modificada pero no olvides mantener
*el espiritu del software libre y respeta GNU-GPL
*/ 
function creaAjax(){
         var objetoAjax=false;
         try {
          /*Para navegadores distintos a internet explorer*/
          // jajajajaja ... IE tambien entra aqui ...
          objetoAjax = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
          try {
                   /*Para explorer*/
                   objetoAjax = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
                   }
                   catch (E) {
                   objetoAjax = false;
          }
         }

         if (!objetoAjax && typeof XMLHttpRequest!='undefined') {
          objetoAjax = new XMLHttpRequest();
         }
         return objetoAjax;
}

jQuery namespaced event binding/unbinding

to javascript dom ajax js jquery events scraping scrape by jamiew on Jan 12, 2008
// from a comment by Steven Bristol on errtheblog.com

I just wanted to share a really killer event handling tidbit:

Generally you do something like:

jQuery(’.class’).click(function(){//whatever});


Everyone knows this can be rewritten as:

jQuery(’.class’).bind(‘click’, function(){//whatever});


But sometimes you need to unbind something:

jQuery(’.class’).unbind(‘click’, function(){//});


The problem with this is that it will unbind all the click events, not just yours. So if multiple bits of javascript have a click event handler for ’.class’, unbinding removes them all. (This is because there is no way to identify an anonymous function.)

But jQuery is so good that there is a way to handle this: Namespacing your events:

jQuery(’.class’).bind(‘click.namespace’, function(){//}); 
jQuery(’.class’).unbind(‘click.namespace’);


or for reinitializing an element added via ajax:

jQuery(’.class’)unbind(‘click.namespace’).bind(‘click.namespace’, function(){//});

jQuery and Rails' respond_to

to ruby rails javascript rubyonrails ajax js jquery respond_to by jamiew on Jan 12, 2008
// Just throw this at the bottom of your application.js and you’re good to go: all jQuery ajax requests will trigger the wants.js block of your respond_to declaration, exactly like you’d expect. Enjoy.
// via: http://ozmm.org/posts/jquery_and_respond_to.html

jQuery.ajaxSetup({ ‘beforeSend’: function(xhr) {xhr.setRequestHeader(“Accept”, “text/javascript”)} })

Ajax / Effects-only link

to ajax by deckard on Sep 23, 2007
To create a link that is used purely for some Scriptaculous effects or for an Ajax call, use # as the href target and return false from the javascript onlick call.

<a href="#" onclick="Effect.toggle('widget_preview', 'blind');return false;">Blog this ...</a>

Never render the full layout in a Rails view when called via AJAX

to ruby rails javascript rubyonrails ajax programming jquery degradation degradable by jamiew on Sep 09, 2007
Essential for degradable javascript, when one never knows if a view or partial is being called via XmlHttpRequest or not. Throw the below code in your ApplicationController (application.rb)

More info in this blog post

def render(*args)
  	args.first[:layout] = false if request.xhr? and args.first[:layout].nil?
	super
end

AJAX multiple updates to calling page without using RJS template

to rails ajax by deckard on Jul 25, 2007
When a controller action is called via XHR (XmlHttpRequest), the action will look for a .rjs template first, then a .rhtml template if not available.

To skip using the .rjs template, include a render(:update) {|page| <block code> } call to perform updates.

  def toggle_showall
    render(:update) do |page|
      page[:fb_content].replace_html "just text? ripoff!"
      page[:flash_box].visual_effect :blind_down, :duration => 0.25
    end
  end


We use page as a hash to reference elements by id from the originating page.

page[:fb_content]


Then perform the updates to the element. Here we're replacing the contents of the element with id of "fb_content" with the string of text.
page[:fb_content].replace_html "just text? ripoff!"


You can render anything you could normally using a render call, example, some partial.
page[:fb_content].replace_html :partial => "shared/some_partial"


If the partial you're calling has instance vars you need to fill before, just include them before the render(:update) block and they'll be available to the partial during rendering.


Here we execute scriptaculous' Effect.BlindDown on element 'flash_box' with option of duration of .25 seconds.
page[:flash_box].visual_effect :blind_down, :duration => 0.25


There are plenty of other methods you can call on a page element. Refer to the Agile WebDev PDF for more details.
30 total

On This Page:

  1. 1 javascript :: create an xml request object
  2. 2 xmlhttp with testing for various ie versions
  3. 3 Load file into Div via Ajax
  4. 4 Crea Objeto XMLHTTPRequest
  5. 5 Ajax-creaObjeto-XMLHttpRequest
  1. 6 jQuery namespaced event binding/unbinding
  2. 7 jQuery and Rails' respond_to
  3. 8 Ajax / Effects-only link
  4. 9 Never render the full layout in a Rails view when called via AJAX
  5. 10 AJAX multiple updates to calling page without using RJS template