Re: new HTML_AJAX implementation

There is already a pepr proposal for it: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=198 Its mainly documenting and bringing it up to coding PEAR coding standards, I talked to Mechal today and he isn't sure when he'll have time to get it ready, so im just embedding to move forward with a working example, it should be an external package before any stable release. If someone has time to help him out with the cs stuff i'm sure he'd appreciate it. Also if someone has time to be a co-maintainer on HTML_AJAX i'd be happy to have the help. I have some very specific things that I think it should provide but as long as your adding optional features im open to any ideas. -josh Alan Knowles wrote:

This looks a bit better - why not split JSON into a seperate package? - HTML_Javascript_JSON? it seems more usefull in it's own right than the AJAX php code? That way you integrate JSON responses into existing code frameworks.. Regards Alan On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:32 -0700, Joshua Eichorn wrote:

Putting my money where my mouth is, I did a quick implmentation of what I think HTML_AJAX should look like. Its still kinda rough I put it together in the last couple hours. Code at: http://bluga.net/projects/HTML_AJAX-0.2.0/ Features: Ability to register multiple classes on one page JSON is used for communication in both directions (I made add JPSpan xml from JavaScript to server as well) Class are exposed to Javascript as classes POST is used for sending requests Decent JavaScript error handling (right now there is an alert catch on the errors, but we might just leave the exceptions alone at some point) Things that need to be done: Javascript Stuff: Decide if JavaScript JSON implementation has a license that is ok (json.js) At least switch to a smushed json.js (3k instead of 10k) Clean up HTML_AJAX.js, I pull in a bunch of classes from JPSpan and I think they can be made smaller through refactoring Expose onLoad etc events Complete Async Callback support Create an addon api that allows for, proxyless operation, direct content replacement from results PHP Stuff: Pearify JSON.php (this currently has a pepr proposal in the draft state, the author said he will try to move it forward, but who knows if he will have time) Complete the api so it that is supports inpage operation like test.php, or out of pager operation (including the javascript proxy files) Write code to deliver the js files through php with the proper caching headers, so you don't have to copy the js files around unless you want too Write a cache for javascript proxy files If anyone wants to help with one of these tasks let me know, I won't be doing any more coding on this for at least a couple hours, since i need to get some real work done. -josh