I complied a couple of functions that works in standalone mode, and
hacked them to work with the scriptaculous Ajax.Updater
...
<code>
/**************** Browser History ******************/
/** saves browser history */
function load(target,url,history){
if(history){
t_url = new Array();
t_url[0]=target;
t_url[1]=url;
dhtmlHistory.add(target+'|'+url.replace('?','%C2%'), t_url);
//dhtmlHistory.add(target+'|'+url, t_url);
}
}
/** Initialize Ajax History */
function ajax_history() {
// initialize our DHTML history
dhtmlHistory.initialize();
// subscribe to DHTML history change events
dhtmlHistory.addListener(historyChange);
checkWhetherChanged();
}
/** Our callback to receive history change events. */
function historyChange(newLocation, historyData) {
if(historyData){
new Ajax.Updater('tiki-center', historyData[1],
{asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true,
onComplete:function(request){Element.hide('loading-indicator');},
onLoading:function(request){Element.show('loading-indicator')}});
load(historyData[0],historyData[1],false);
}
}
function checkWhetherChanged(){
url=window.location.href;
//if (dhtmlHistory.isFirstLoad()){
if(url.indexOf('#') > -1) {
var url_elements = url.split('#');
var anchor=url_elements[url_elements.length-1];
if(anchor.indexOf('|') > -1){
var ajax = anchor.split('|');
var ajax_target = ajax[0];
var ajax_url = ajax[1].replace('%C2%','?');
//var ajax_url = ajax[1];
new Ajax.Updater('tiki-center', ajax_url,
{asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true,
onComplete:function(request){Element.hide('loading-indicator');},
onLoading:function(request){Element.show('loading-indicator')}});
load(ajax_target,ajax_url,0);
}
}
//}
}
</code>
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file 2:
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<code>
/**
Copyright (c) 2005, Brad Neuberg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://codinginparadise.org
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without
limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom
the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT
OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR
THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
The JSON class near the end of this file is
Copyright 2005, JSON.org
*/
/** An object that provides DHTML history, history data, and
bookmarking
for AJAX applications. */
window.dhtmlHistory = {
/** Initializes our DHTML history. You should
call this after the page is finished loading. */
/** public */ initialize: function() {
// only Internet Explorer needs to be explicitly initialized;
// other browsers don't have its particular behaviors.
// Basicly, IE doesn't autofill form data until the page
// is finished loading, which means historyStorage won't
// work until onload has been fired.
if (this.isInternetExplorer() == false) {
return;
}
// if this is the first time this page has loaded...
if (historyStorage.hasKey("DhtmlHistory_pageLoaded") == false) {
this.fireOnNewListener = false;
this.firstLoad = true;
historyStorage.put("DhtmlHistory_pageLoaded", true);
}
// else if this is a fake onload event
else {
this.fireOnNewListener = true;
this.firstLoad = false;
}
},
/** Adds a history change listener. Note that
only one listener is supported at this
time. */
/** public */ addListener: function(callback) {
this.listener = callback;
// if the page was just loaded and we
// should not ignore it, fire an event
// to our new listener now
if (this.fireOnNewListener == true) {
this.fireHistoryEvent(this.currentLocation);
this.fireOnNewListener = false;
}
},
/** public */ add: function(newLocation, historyData) {
// most browsers require that we wait a certain amount of time
before changing the
// location, such as 200 milliseconds; rather than forcing
external callers to use
// window.setTimeout to account for this to prevent bugs, we
internally handle this
// detail by using a 'currentWaitTime' variable and have requests
wait in line
var self = this;
var addImpl = function() {
// indicate that the current wait time is now less
if (self.currentWaitTime > 0)
self.currentWaitTime = self.currentWaitTime -
self.WAIT_TIME;
// remove any leading hash symbols on newLocation
newLocation = self.removeHash(newLocation);
// IE has a strange bug; if the newLocation
// is the same as _any_ preexisting id in the
// document, then the history action gets recorded
// twice; throw a programmer exception if there is
// an element with this ID
var idCheck = document.getElementById(newLocation);
if (idCheck != undefined || idCheck != null) {
var message =
"Exception: History locations can not have "
+ "the same value as _any_ id's "
+ "that might be in the document, "
+ "due to a bug in Internet "
+ "Explorer; please ask the "
+ "developer to choose a history "
+ "location that does not match "
+ "any HTML id's in this "
+ "document. The following ID "
+ "is already taken and can not "
+ "be a location: "
+ newLocation;
throw message;
}
// store the history data into history storage
historyStorage.put(newLocation, historyData);
// indicate to the browser to ignore this upcomming
// location change
self.ignoreLocationChange = true;
// indicate to IE that this is an atomic location change
// block
this.ieAtomicLocationChange = true;
// save this as our current location
self.currentLocation = newLocation;
// change the browser location
window.location.hash = newLocation;
// change the hidden iframe's location if on IE
if (self.isInternetExplorer())
self.iframe.src = "/app/blank.html?" + newLocation;
// end of atomic location change block
// for IE
this.ieAtomicLocationChange = false;
};
// now execute this add request after waiting a certain amount of
time, so as to
// queue up requests
window.setTimeout(addImpl, this.currentWaitTime);
// indicate that the next request will have to wait for awhile
this.currentWaitTime = this.currentWaitTime + this.WAIT_TIME;
},
/** public */ isFirstLoad: function() {
if (this.firstLoad == true) {
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
},
/** public */ isInternational: function() {
return false;
},
/** public */ getVersion: function() {
return "0.05";
},
/** Gets the current hash value that is in the browser's
location bar, removing leading # symbols if they are present. */
/** public */ getCurrentLocation: function() {
var currentLocation = this.removeHash(window.location.hash);
return currentLocation;
},
/** Our current hash location, without the "#" symbol. */
/** private */ currentLocation: null,
/** Our history change listener. */
/** private */ listener: null,
/** A hidden IFrame we use in Internet Explorer to detect history
changes. */
/** private */ iframe: null,
/** Indicates to the browser whether to ignore location changes. */
/** private */ ignoreLocationChange: null,
/** The amount of time in milliseconds that we should wait between
add requests.
Firefox is okay with 200 ms, but Internet Explorer needs 400. */
/** private */ WAIT_TIME: 200,
/** The amount of time in milliseconds an add request has to wait in
line before being
run on a window.setTimeout. */
/** private */ currentWaitTime: 0,
/** A flag that indicates that we should fire a history change event
when we are ready, i.e. after we are initialized and
we have a history change listener. This is needed due to
an edge case in browsers other than Internet Explorer; if
you leave a page entirely then return, we must fire this
as a history change event. Unfortunately, we have lost
all references to listeners from earlier, because JavaScript
clears out. */
/** private */ fireOnNewListener: null,
/** A variable that indicates whether this is the first time
this page has been loaded. If you go to a web page, leave
it for another one, and then return, the page's onload
listener fires again. We need a way to differentiate
between the first page load and subsequent ones.
This variable works hand in hand with the pageLoaded
variable we store into historyStorage.*/
/** private */ firstLoad: null,
/** A variable to handle an important edge case in Internet
Explorer. In IE, if a user manually types an address into
their browser's location bar, we must intercept this by
continiously checking the location bar with an timer
interval. However, if we manually change the location
bar ourselves programmatically, when using our hidden
iframe, we need to ignore these changes. Unfortunately,
these changes are not atomic, so we surround them with
the variable 'ieAtomicLocationChange', that if true,
means we are programmatically setting the location and
should ignore this atomic chunked change. */
/** private */ ieAtomicLocationChange: null,
/** Creates the DHTML history infrastructure. */
/** private */ create: function() {
// get our initial location
var initialHash = this.getCurrentLocation();
// save this as our current location
this.currentLocation = initialHash;
// write out a hidden iframe for IE and
// set the amount of time to wait between add() requests
if (this.isInternetExplorer()) {
document.write("<iframe style='border: 0px; width: 1px; "
+ "height: 1px; position: absolute;
bottom: 0px; "
+ "right: 0px; visibility: visible;' "
+ "name='DhtmlHistoryFrame'
id='DhtmlHistoryFrame' "
+ "src='/app/blank.html?" + initialHash
+ "'>"
+ "</iframe>");
// wait 400 milliseconds between history
// updates on IE, versus 200 on Firefox
this.WAIT_TIME = 200;
}
// add an unload listener for the page; this is
// needed for Firefox 1.5+ because this browser caches all
// dynamic updates to the page, which can break some of our
// logic related to testing whether this is the first instance
// a page has loaded or whether it is being pulled from the cache
var self = this;
window.onunload = function() {
self.firstLoad = null;
};
// determine if this is our first page load;
// for Internet Explorer, we do this in
// this.iframeLoaded(), which is fired on
// page load. We do it there because
// we have no historyStorage at this point
// in IE, which only exists after the page
// is finished loading for that browser
if (this.isInternetExplorer() == false) {
if (historyStorage.hasKey("DhtmlHistory_pageLoaded") == false)
{
this.ignoreLocationChange = true;
this.firstLoad = true;
historyStorage.put("DhtmlHistory_pageLoaded", true);
}
else {
// indicate that we want to pay attention
// to this location change
this.ignoreLocationChange = false;
// For browser's other than IE, fire
// a history change event; on IE,
// the event will be thrown automatically
// when it's hidden iframe reloads
// on page load.
// Unfortunately, we don't have any
// listeners yet; indicate that we want
// to fire an event when a listener
// is added.
this.fireOnNewListener = true;
}
}
else { // Internet Explorer
// the iframe will get loaded on page
// load, and we want to ignore this fact
this.ignoreLocationChange = true;
}
if (this.isInternetExplorer()) {
this.iframe = document.getElementById("DhtmlHistoryFrame");
}
// other browsers can use a location handler that checks
// at regular intervals as their primary mechanism;
// we use it for Internet Explorer as well to handle
// an important edge case; see checkLocation() for
// details
var self = this;
var locationHandler = function() {
self.checkLocation();
};
setInterval(locationHandler, 100);
},
/** Notify the listener of new history changes. */
/** private */ fireHistoryEvent: function(newHash) {
// extract the value from our history storage for
// this hash
var historyData = historyStorage.get(newHash);
// call our listener
this.listener.call(null, newHash, historyData);
},
/** Sees if the browsers has changed location. This is the primary
history mechanism
for Firefox. For Internet Explorer, we use this to handle an
important edge case:
if a user manually types in a new hash value into their Internet
Explorer location
bar and press enter, we want to intercept this and notify any
history listener. */
/** private */ checkLocation: function() {
// ignore any location changes that we made ourselves
// for browsers other than Internet Explorer
if (this.isInternetExplorer() == false
&& this.ignoreLocationChange == true) {
this.ignoreLocationChange = false;
return;
}
// if we are dealing with Internet Explorer
// and we are in the middle of making a location
// change from an iframe, ignore it
if (this.isInternetExplorer() == false
&& this.ieAtomicLocationChange == true) {
return;
}
// get hash location
var hash = this.getCurrentLocation();
// see if there has been a change
if (hash == this.currentLocation)
return;
// on Internet Explorer, we need to intercept users manually
// entering locations into the browser; we do this by comparing
// the browsers location against the iframes location; if they
// differ, we are dealing with a manual event and need to
// place it inside our history, otherwise we can return
this.ieAtomicLocationChange = true;
if (this.isInternetExplorer()
&& this.getIFrameHash() != hash) {
this.iframe.src = "/app/blank.html?" + hash;
}
else if (this.isInternetExplorer()) {
// the iframe is unchanged
return;
}
// save this new location
this.currentLocation = hash;
this.ieAtomicLocationChange = false;
// notify listeners of the change
this.fireHistoryEvent(hash);
},
/** Gets the current location of the hidden IFrames
that is stored as history. For Internet Explorer. */
/** private */ getIFrameHash: function() {
// get the new location
var historyFrame = document.getElementById("DhtmlHistoryFrame");
var doc = historyFrame.contentWindow.document;
var hash = new String(doc.location.search);
if (hash.length == 1 && hash.charAt(0) == "?")
hash = "";
else if (hash.length >= 2 && hash.charAt(0) == "?")
hash = hash.substring(1);
return hash;
},
/** Removes any leading hash that might be on a location. */
/** private */ removeHash: function(hashValue) {
if (hashValue == null || hashValue == undefined)
return null;
else if (hashValue == "")
return "";
else if (hashValue.length == 1 && hashValue.charAt(0) == "#")
return "";
else if (hashValue.length > 1 && hashValue.charAt(0) == "#")
return hashValue.substring(1);
else
return hashValue;
},
/** For IE, says when the hidden iframe has finished loading. */
/** private */ iframeLoaded: function(newLocation) {
// ignore any location changes that we made ourselves
if (this.ignoreLocationChange == true) {
this.ignoreLocationChange = false;
return;
}
// get the new location
var hash = new String(newLocation.search);
if (hash.length == 1 && hash.charAt(0) == "?")
hash = "";
else if (hash.length >= 2 && hash.charAt(0) == "?")
hash = hash.substring(1);
// move to this location in the browser location bar
// if we are not dealing with a page load event
if (this.pageLoadEvent != true) {
window.location.hash = hash;
}
// notify listeners of the change
this.fireHistoryEvent(hash);
},
/** Determines if this is Internet Explorer. */
/** private */ isInternetExplorer: function() {
var userAgent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
if (document.all && userAgent.indexOf('msie')!=-1) {
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
};
/** An object that uses a hidden form to store history state
across page loads. The chief mechanism for doing so is using
the fact that browser's save the text in form data for the
life of the browser and cache, which means the text is still
there when the user navigates back to the page. See
http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2005/08/ajax-tutorial-saving-session-across.html
for full details. */
window.historyStorage = {
/** If true, we are debugging and show the storage textfield. */
/** public */ debugging: false,
/** Our hash of key name/values. */
/** private */ storageHash: new Object(),
/** If true, we have loaded our hash table out of the storage form.
*/
/** private */ hashLoaded: false,
/** public */ put: function(key, value) {
this.assertValidKey(key);
// if we already have a value for this,
// remove the value before adding the
// new one
if (this.hasKey(key)) {
this.remove(key);
}
// store this new key
this.storageHash[key] = value;
// save and serialize the hashtable into the form
this.saveHashTable();
},
/** public */ get: function(key) {
this.assertValidKey(key);
// make sure the hash table has been loaded
// from the form
this.loadHashTable();
var value = this.storageHash[key];
if (value == undefined)
return null;
else
return value;
},
/** public */ remove: function(key) {
this.assertValidKey(key);
// make sure the hash table has been loaded
// from the form
this.loadHashTable();
// delete the value
delete this.storageHash[key];
// serialize and save the hash table into the
// form
this.saveHashTable();
},
/** Clears out all saved data. */
/** public */ reset: function() {
this.storageField.value = "";
this.storageHash = new Object();
},
/** public */ hasKey: function(key) {
this.assertValidKey(key);
// make sure the hash table has been loaded
// from the form
this.loadHashTable();
if (typeof this.storageHash[key] == "undefined")
return false;
else
return true;
},
/** Determines whether the key given is valid;
keys can only have letters, numbers, the dash,
underscore, spaces, or one of the
following characters:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()+=:;,./?|\~{}[] */
/** public */ isValidKey: function(key) {
// allow all strings, since we don't use XML serialization
// format anymore
return (typeof key == "string");
/*
if (typeof key != "string")
key = key.toString();
var matcher =
/^[a-zA-Z0-9_
[EMAIL PROTECTED]&\*\(\)\+\=\:\;\,\.\/\?\|\\\~\{\}\[\]]*$/;
return matcher.test(key);*/
},
/** A reference to our textarea field. */
/** private */ storageField: null,
/** private */ init: function() {
// write a hidden form into the page
var styleValue = "position: absolute; top: -1000px; left:
-1000px;";
if (this.debugging == true) {
styleValue = "width: 30em; height: 30em;";
}
var newContent =
"<form id='historyStorageForm' "
+ "method='GET' "
+ "style='" + styleValue + "'>"
+ "<textarea id='historyStorageField' "
+ "style='" + styleValue + "'"
+ "left: -1000px;' "
+ "name='historyStorageField'></textarea>"
+ "</form>";
document.write(newContent);
this.storageField =
document.getElementById("historyStorageField");
},
/** Asserts that a key is valid, throwing
an exception if it is not. */
/** private */ assertValidKey: function(key) {
if (this.isValidKey(key) == false) {
throw "Please provide a valid key for "
+ "window.historyStorage, key= "
+ key;
}
},
/** Loads the hash table up from the form. */
/** private */ loadHashTable: function() {
if (this.hashLoaded == false) {
// get the hash table as a serialized
// string
var serializedHashTable = this.storageField.value;
if (serializedHashTable != "" &&
serializedHashTable != null) {
// destringify the content back into a
// real JavaScript object
this.storageHash = eval('(' + serializedHashTable + ')');
}
this.hashLoaded = true;
}
},
/** Saves the hash table into the form. */
/** private */ saveHashTable: function() {
this.loadHashTable();
// serialized the hash table
var serializedHashTable = JSON.stringify(this.storageHash);
// save this value
this.storageField.value = serializedHashTable;
}
};
/** The JSON class is copyright 2005 JSON.org. */
Array.prototype.______array = '______array';
var JSON = {
org: 'http://www.JSON.org',
copyright: '(c)2005 JSON.org',
license: 'http://www.crockford.com/JSON/license.html',
stringify: function (arg) {
var c, i, l, s = '', v;
switch (typeof arg) {
case 'object':
if (arg) {
if (arg.______array == '______array') {
for (i = 0; i < arg.length; ++i) {
v = this.stringify(arg[i]);
if (s) {
s += ',';
}
s += v;
}
return '[' + s + ']';
} else if (typeof arg.toString != 'undefined') {
for (i in arg) {
v = arg[i];
if (typeof v != 'undefined' && typeof v !=
'function') {
v = this.stringify(v);
if (s) {
s += ',';
}
s += this.stringify(i) + ':' + v;
}
}
return '{' + s + '}';
}
}
return 'null';
case 'number':
return isFinite(arg) ? String(arg) : 'null';
case 'string':
l = arg.length;
s = '"';
for (i = 0; i < l; i += 1) {
c = arg.charAt(i);
if (c >= ' ') {
if (c == '\\' || c == '"') {
s += '\\';
}
s += c;
} else {
switch (c) {
case '\b':
s += '\\b';
break;
case '\f':
s += '\\f';
break;
case '\n':
s += '\\n';
break;
case '\r':
s += '\\r';
break;
case '\t':
s += '\\t';
break;
default:
c = c.charCodeAt();
s += '\\u00' + Math.floor(c /
16).toString(16) +
(c % 16).toString(16);
}
}
}
return s + '"';
case 'boolean':
return String(arg);
default:
return 'null';
}
},
parse: function (text) {
var at = 0;
var ch = ' ';
function error(m) {
throw {
name: 'JSONError',
message: m,
at: at - 1,
text: text
};
}
function next() {
ch = text.charAt(at);
at += 1;
return ch;
}
function white() {
while (ch != '' && ch <= ' ') {
next();
}
}
function str() {
var i, s = '', t, u;
if (ch == '"') {
outer: while (next()) {
if (ch == '"') {
next();
return s;
} else if (ch == '\\') {
switch (next()) {
case 'b':
s += '\b';
break;
case 'f':
s += '\f';
break;
case 'n':
s += '\n';
break;
case 'r':
s += '\r';
break;
case 't':
s += '\t';
break;
case 'u':
u = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 4; i += 1) {
t = parseInt(next(), 16);
if (!isFinite(t)) {
break outer;
}
u = u * 16 + t;
}
s += String.fromCharCode(u);
break;
default:
s += ch;
}
} else {
s += ch;
}
}
}
error("Bad string");
}
function arr() {
var a = [];
if (ch == '[') {
next();
white();
if (ch == ']') {
next();
return a;
}
while (ch) {
a.push(val());
white();
if (ch == ']') {
next();
return a;
} else if (ch != ',') {
break;
}
next();
white();
}
}
error("Bad array");
}
function obj() {
var k, o = {};
if (ch == '{') {
next();
white();
if (ch == '}') {
next();
return o;
}
while (ch) {
k = str();
white();
if (ch != ':') {
break;
}
next();
o[k] = val();
white();
if (ch == '}') {
next();
return o;
} else if (ch != ',') {
break;
}
next();
white();
}
}
error("Bad object");
}
function num() {
var n = '', v;
if (ch == '-') {
n = '-';
next();
}
while (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') {
n += ch;
next();
}
if (ch == '.') {
n += '.';
while (next() && ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') {
n += ch;
}
}
if (ch == 'e' || ch == 'E') {
n += 'e';
next();
if (ch == '-' || ch == '+') {
n += ch;
next();
}
while (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') {
n += ch;
next();
}
}
v = +n;
if (!isFinite(v)) {
error("Bad number");
} else {
return v;
}
}
function word() {
switch (ch) {
case 't':
if (next() == 'r' && next() == 'u' && next() ==
'e') {
next();
return true;
}
break;
case 'f':
if (next() == 'a' && next() == 'l' && next() == 's'
&&
next() == 'e') {
next();
return false;
}
break;
case 'n':
if (next() == 'u' && next() == 'l' && next() ==
'l') {
next();
return null;
}
break;
}
error("Syntax error");
}
function val() {
white();
switch (ch) {
case '{':
return obj();
case '[':
return arr();
case '"':
return str();
case '-':
return num();
default:
return ch >= '0' && ch <= '9' ? num() : word();
}
}
return val();
}
};
/** Initialize all of our objects now. */
window.historyStorage.init();
window.dhtmlHistory.create();
</code>
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uses a blank.html iframe in IE.
we have to put the following in the main body;
onload="ajax_history();"
For now it's working, i'll test it more.
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