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| From | J.D. Deutschendorf |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | form submit method for calling xmlimporting script |
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| Date | 4 August 2004 15:12 |
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Mark,
I loved your xmlimport script! One question though, i'd like to call
the script by using a form submit button and passing in a value to the
query string of the URL using HTTP GET. This is instead of clicking on
the hyperlink as shown in your example. I'm NOT a javascript guru like
yourself, and am having (predictably) some problems in getting this to
work. Any suggestions?
J.D.
| From | Me |
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| To | J.D. Deutschendorf |
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| Subject | Re: form submit method for calling xmlimporting script |
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| Date | 4 August 2004 19:53 |
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J.D.
this is actually fairly easy, since all forms do is construct a URL anyway,
you can use script methods to construct it manually
function getXML(oForm,oFunc) {
for(var x=0,elem,oStr='';elem=oForm.elements[x];x++){
if(elem.name) {
oStr += oStr ? '&' : '?';
oStr += escape(elem.name) + '=' + escape(elem.value);
}
}
importXML( oForm.action+oStr, oFunc );
}
...
<form action="blah.php" onsubmit="getXML(this,'runThis');return false;">
...
<input type="submit" value="go">
</form>
(not actually tested this, hope it works)
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | J.D. Deutschendorf |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: form submit method for calling xmlimporting script |
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| Date | 4 August 2004 22:47 |
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Mark,
Thanks for the quick response! I'm still having problems though...
I've put an html page out there with your original code and a function
I wrote. It's at:
http://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/xmltest.html
I can't get this file to work on my server, but when I run it from my
local machine the hyperlink runs fine, but I can't get the form
submission to do the same thing.
Any help you might be able to shed on this would be appreciated.
Thanks!
J.D.
J.D.
simple mistake, you have put quotes areound your string. no need to do that.
it is already a string. remove the single quotes
var xmlURL = "http://blah.someAddress.com/etc/blah?someid=" + strNewSS;
as a secondary point, you are trying to load a file from another server.
several browsers will be unhappy about this. if at all possible, you should
use a server-side-script to read the XML file and pass it through your own
server.
I have attached a php script that should do it
Tarquin
| From | J.D. Deutschendorf |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: form submit method for calling xmlimporting script |
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| Date | 5 August 2004 16:29 |
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Mark,
Thanks for your help! I'm bummed about javascript's same-origin policy
preventing client-side access. I wanted to see if this could be done
completely on the client.
I guess that if the XML could be output as javascript and referenced
within a SCRIPT tag, then my problem would be solved, as I understand
the same-origin policy doesn't apply to that tag.
Oh well...
Thanks Again!
J.D.