AJAX question

[WebRic]

Hi All,

Can AJAX be used to submit a form without reloading the rest of the page.

note: I know there are ways of doing this with iFrames but this is not suitable for my purposes.

Thanks,


Richard

 

[BabyJeffy]

Yes it can. You can specific POST or GET and you can read the returned result of the submit (if you wish) and act on it.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[WebRic]

Cheers Jeff.

R

 

[tsdragon]

Can you really "submit a form"? I know you can send GET or POST data, but that's not really the same thing as submitting a form. Particularly since you have to manually take the data from the form fields and build the GET/POST data to send to the URL. Don't you?

Tracy Dryden

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[Sheco]

What do you mean by "submit a form" ???

Do you mean send an HTTP request to the server that includes form elements and their values?

 

[jemminger]

afaik, i don't think there's a difference... typically "submitting" a form means triggering a POST of the form's field's values. so whether this is done via a submit button or sending a POST via xmlhttp shouldn't matter to the receiving url/form action.

-jeff

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[tsdragon]

You're right, if you do it correctly it won't matter to the receiving program at all, but it matters a great deal to the sending program. When you submit a form the browser automatically takes the data from the form fields and creates the query string or post data to send to the form processing program. When you use an HTTP request you must take the values of the form fields and create the query string or post data yourself.

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.