Back in the old days before the invention of the marketing term Ajax, the data fetching part of things was called XMLHttpRequest which gives you some decent idea of what it does. Ajax has moved beyond that to do all sorts of things but fundamentally the asynchronous part of things that does data fetching is still just an http request.
Judah On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, Judah... > > Rick > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:26 PM >> To: cf-talk >> Subject: Re: Is it possible to reference a cfc method using ajax? >> >> An ajax call is just an http call. It should work with any url you can >> put in a browser. The important part is making sure that the request >> returns the data you want and in the format you want. That can be the >> tricky bit. The only gotcha I see there is that you are using a >> relative path call for your url, so you'll need to make sure that your >> ajax script thinks its in the place you think it is. I'd start doing a >> fully qualified url so that you don't run into any issues there. >> >> Judah >> >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Rick Faircloth >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, all...good Sunday to ya. >> > >> > I was wondering if it's possible for me to reference >> > methods of a cfc in ajax code, e.g. >> > >> > $.ajax({ cache: false, >> > type: "POST", >> > url: "components/virtual_tours.cfc?method=getAllTours", >> > dataType: "json", >> > data: formval, >> > success: function(response){ >> > >> > Or something like that... >> > >> > ??? >> > >> > Rick >> > >> > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317746 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
