Mce Ajax

[lcrowhurst]

Hi Guys

has anyone written anything in Ajax and run it inside MCE. Ive witten a simple test program that works fine inside a browser (IE), but when in MCE it doesnt update the page.

1) does ajax work inside MCE
2) if it does is there something special you have to write
3) has anyone got any sample (simple) code - simple as its a long time since Ive called myself a good programmer :P

thanks

[benji0000]

yep works fine (its IE after all).

My plugin uses AJAX - http://www.streamalicious.com

[lcrowhurst]

I must be doing something wrong still doesnt work, are you using atlas for you development.

here is the link to the test sample

http://www.intellihome.com.au/apsx/test.htm

works in browser , not in mce


Could you take a look at code as see where im going wrong

getcubs.js

var xmlHttp

function GetCBus(str)
{
if (str.length==0)
{
document.getElementById(str).innerHTML="99"
return
}
xmlHttp=GetXmlHttpObject()
if (xmlHttp==null)
{
alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request")
return
}
var url="state.asp"
url=url+"?q="+str+Math.random()
url=url+"&sid="+Math.random()
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=stateChanged
xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true)
xmlHttp.send(null)
}


function stateChanged()
{
if (xmlHttp.readyState==4 || xmlHttp.readyState=="complete")
{

a=(xmlHttp.responseText).substring(0,8)
b=(xmlHttp.responseText).substring(8,30)
document.getElementById(a).innerHTML=b
}
}

function GetXmlHttpObject()
{
var objXMLHttp=null
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
objXMLHttp=new XMLHttpRequest()
}
else if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
objXMLHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
}
return objXMLHttp
}


state.asp

<%
response.write(ucase(request.querystring("q")))
%>

[benji0000]

No, I'm not using Atlas, but I am using a third party AJAX interface.

It's not that hard to write yourself, but why bother when there are good ones out there.

I picked the Yahoo! UI one. The Yahoo! one was easy to setup, relatively lightweight and just works.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Atlas is probably an option, but its a bigger thing than I wanted. Google also has one.