have you checked out Request.JSONP? http://mootools.net/docs/more/Request/Request.JSONP
it provides an onComplete event listener. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:20 PM, pradador <prada...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wanted to add a couple of widgets to a homepage I'm designing. > There's plenty of PHP libraries out there but this causes the widgets > to load before the page is displayed. If for example, Twitter is under > heavy load, this can affect my page load times greatly. > > Since I wanted to the plugins to load after the basic page is > rendered, I figured I'd turn to MooTools to render the widgets on load > or domready events. However, accessing the API data via JS is giving > me trouble. Cross-domain XHR requests are out of the question of > course. iFrames would be simple, but they are not much fun to deal > with. So instead, it seems the common method is to create a script > element which points to the request URL. The APIs then return JSON > data wrapped in a callback function for you to handle. > > For example, using the Twitter API: > 1. I create a script element and set the src to: > http://twitter.com/help/test.json?callback=jsonp > 2. I am returned this: jsonp("ok"); > 3. In my code, I have the global function jsonp(data) which handles > the response accordingly. In this case I might just want to do alert > (data); > > It's a decent solution, but I'd like to be able to do more. The script > element method resigns me to use the data either within the context of > the callback function or within the global scope. It's not very OOP. I > want to be able to call something like "myAPIObject.getUserDetails()" > and get the raw data back which I can process as I see fit. > > My current approach is to create a companion PHP script as a proxy. It > simply takes the URL as a parameter and it returns the response from > the API using a cURL call. From the MooTools side, I simply do an XHR > request to the script and then handle the string response using eval > (). > > Any thoughts or suggestions on the matter? Hopefully I'm not just > missing some obvious method of doing this lol.
