Comments on: DWRequest: MooTools 1.2 AJAX Listener & Message Display

By: epsi

epsi — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:08:36 +0000

Cheers David,

http://paste.davidwalsh.name/78

I’m using your code in my Ajax-based-Joomla.
Actually, it’s highly modified as I’ve made a simple generic class.

Hope you don’t mind to take look in your pastebin area.

Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
note: pastebin looks great… I’ve never known you have it.

By: acctman

acctman — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:36:32 +0000

do you have any examples or tips for using this to display a notification to a user? Pretty much what I want to do is if the user is on the site, and i need to send out a notification to all users, how would i call the Request… ? is there anyway to do this, what method would work without having the user to reload a page to see the message. I.e. in a chat room

By: Fabrice Terrasson

Fabrice Terrasson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:18:42 +0000

Tried to extend Request.HTML without success. Any clue ?

By: david

david — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:42:24 +0000

@Andreas: Absolutely. After I published the article, I kicked myself for not doing that. I’ll do that in the next version.

@All: Any more suggestions?

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:49:33 +0000

Wouldn’t it be more mootoolesk to add the function show_ajax_message to the class, cause there is no other one that will use it.

By: david

david — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:17:48 +0000

Right nir, I’ll incorporate a switch next time. The “DW” is simply my attempt at tracking usage (my initials).

By: nir tayeb

nir tayeb — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:48:02 +0000

Use switch statement instead of the if, it is more appropriate here and the performance is better.

Why you have called it *DW*Request? what is the meaning?

By: david

david — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:55:50 +0000

Thank you for your ideas Keven!

In terms of versioning, I guess I’d consider this a “0.1″. I hope to continue working on this class, adding user-friendly icons and providing more information about the Ajax request itself (displaying url, execution time, …)

By: Bouchard, Keven

Bouchard, Keven — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:55:58 +0000

Great little script!

The only thing I’d add is more information about the faillure message. Like wich type is it. Because that’s meaningfull if it’s used for debugging.

Also it can be “extended” by shooting the php error message in the postback nad showing it in the message box, like… this value is missing or inexistant, etc. depending on which type of request you’ve fired, but that’s getting a bit out of the js part ;).

gj!