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Comment on Elegant Twitter Widget by Carsten

Carsten — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:31 +0000

Hey Paul,

it has taken a long time, but I still used your hints preparing a new blog. It isn’t online yet, but it will be there in the next two weeks I think. Thanks for your help.

In the moment I’m looking for a way to cache the tweets, ’cause the twitter server often where offline in the last weeks. Have you heard about a smart way to do that?
I’ll be very happy, to read your opinions.

Ciao Carsten

Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by Jeremy Lockhart

Jeremy Lockhart — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:45:19 +0000

Great write-up! New to the whole AJAX thing but well-versed in PHP. This helped tie it together nicely.

And thanks to Fanaticz for some inspiration on a cool photo gallery idea!

Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by cyguard

cyguard — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:18:22 +0000

Very nice tutorial! Simple and powerful! Thanks!

Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:40:51 +0000

hey Paul, thanks for pointing me to somewhere. took some time to figure out what was happening.. after some time of googling, what i was looking for was ‘ajax activity indicator’ using PHP. here’s link to a guide i follow: http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/ajax-activity-indicators-make-them-global-and-unobtrusive/ Not mine, just wanting to share. =) thanks again Paul!

Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by Paul

Paul — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:35:20 +0000

@Sebastian:
Once the Ajax request has been initialized and assuming the request has been sent, the database update should complete even if the user closes the window. However, if you want confirmation of completion, you can make the PHP file output the completed status. Inside the Ajax.Request(), you can add an additional parameter, onComplete, which will be executed when the Ajax call completes. Then you can check the output of the PHP file to see if it was successful and use Javascript to update the page (such as printing “completed”).

You may want to check the Prototype documentation on Ajax.Request for more info.

Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:45:07 +0000

hey Paul, thanks for the great tutorial. quick question: i’ve been thinking if there is a way to find out when the updating of sequence is completed on the database. i wish to avoid a situation where the ajax request is not completed and the window is closed ..

is there a way to track the status, say by a ‘updating..’ thing? i’m pretty sure something like this is possible, but i dont know what’s the keyword for something like this.. can you point me to something?

any help is appreciated! =)

Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by Creation of a sortable list with Ajax tutorial : Emanuele Feronato - italian geek and PROgrammer

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:52:41 +0000

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Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:26:42 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial.

But for php code, you should do
# for ($i = 0, $max = count($list_to_sort); $i <$max ; $i++) { }

Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by Andrew Heiss

Andrew Heiss — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:55:21 +0000

Last comment…sorry…

So, I didn’t know that it was supposed to encoded… Oops…

After copying and pasting the code a few more times, it started working. Apparently I had something typed wrong.

Thanks for a great tutorial!

Comment on script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial by Andrew Heiss

Andrew Heiss — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:40:27 +0000

So after more searching and testing, I’ve discovered that it’s encoding the data in hex. I have no idea why!

I tried using urldecode, but it didn’t work: parse_str(urldecode($_GET[’data’]));