Thanks for all the replies from the CFAJAX, YODEL, and TACONITE folks!! Looks like it's time to put on my reading hat and get some examples up and running (unless anyone has some simple samples to post...hehe).
I'll be back with some questions I'm sure. Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 8:59 AM Subject: RE: GIF Pipes/AJAX/async gateway > Bryan, > > You might want to check out the Taconite project: > http://taconite.sourceforge.net/ > > One thing I do really like about this AJAX implementation is that you > continue to work with what you already know--HTML (well, technically XHTML.) > > What makes this library a little different from most AJAX libraries is that > instead of passing back just data, you're passing back XHTML fragments. > > The one caveat is that you must make sure to specify that the return doc > type is of text/xml using the <cfcontent /> tag. > > For example, server-side code would replace layer named "echoResponse" on > the calling page with the contents inside the <taconite-replace-children> > tag. > > <!---// must return text/xml content type //---> > <cfcontent type="text/xml" /> > <taconite-root xml:space="preserve"> > <taconite-replace-children contextNodeID="echoResponse" > parseInBrowser="true"> > <div> > Your name is: <cfoutput>#url.name#</cfoutput> > <br/>Your gender is: > <cfoutput>#url.gender#</cfoutput> > <br/>Your age bracket is: > <cfoutput>#url.age#</cfoutput> > <br/>The tools you use is/are: > <cfoutput>#url.tools#</cfoutput> > </div> > </taconite-replace-children> > </taconite-root> > > I do think there are times when just sending data is the most appropriate > transport method, but there are also times when it's easier just to transfer > the segment of HTML you want to display. > > -Dan > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 6:26 PM >>To: CF-Talk >>Subject: GIF Pipes/AJAX/async gateway >> >>Hey All, >> >>Looking for opinions and code snippets for the various methods of behind >>the scenes process (trying to avoid full page refreshes and having to use >>Flash). >> >>I'm trying to do things like this: >> >>1) User selects a drop down option....that fires off a request to get data >>to populate 1 or more drop downs (and pre-loading all possible data and >>using related multi-selects will not fly) >> >>2) User enters (or selects) a few or more fields of data....once all bits >>are entered/filled, a request is fired off and the response is used to >>change the content of various DIVs (or other containers). For example 4 >>fields are required to narrow down what the user is trying to get at....the >>request would then verify that the combo of those field values matches a >>valid DB record). >> >>Assume I know nothing about this kind of processing (plz keep the acronyms >>to a minimum). ;-) >> >>TIA >> >>Cheers >> >>Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. >>VP & Director of E-Commerce Development >>Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. >>phone: 250.480.0642 >>fax: 250.480.1264 >>cell: 250.920.8830 >>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>web: www.electricedgesystems.com >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:225432 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
