-- Marc Grue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Sunday, 30 November 2008, 05:45 AM -0800):
> I have earlier used the Prototype library to pull asynchronous data from a
> standalone script file 'ajax_srcipt', more or less like this:
>
> .. load prototype libraries
> onclick="Javascrip:do_something_with(
> new Ajax.Updater({success: 'ajax_script'}, 'ajax_script_path_with_vars',
> {evalScripts: true});
> )"
>
> Is there a "Dojo"-way to do this?
>
> Should I call an ajax-action in a controller that would then return the
> calculated data? (I miss controller examples in the manual)
Look into dojo.xhr:
http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-3-programmatic-dijit-and-dojo/ajax-transports
There's not a direct equivalent to Ajax.Updater, but it's trivial to use
dojo.place to inject the content into your DOM via a load callback.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
