[jQuery] Best way to do AJAX... CF or jQuery?
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Rick,<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>You need both. You use jQuery to send requests to a server side
scripting language like CF (or php, asp, cgi, etc) .<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Perhaps the simplest way to introduce yourself to an “<st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ajax</st1:place></st1:City>” activity
would be to use jQuery’s load() function.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Try this:<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>$("##displaycfoutput").load("mycfpage.cfm?param1=#something#¶m2=#somethingelse#");<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>On your mycfpage.cfm, put a database query using the URL vars your
passed.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hope that helps.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>From: discuss-bounces@jquery.com [mailto:discuss-bounces@jquery.com] On
Behalf Of Rick Faircloth<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:22 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>To: '<st1:PersonName w:st="on">jQuery Discussion.</st1:PersonName>'<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Subject: [jQuery] Best way to do <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">AJAX</st1:place></st1:City>...
CF or jQuery?<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>A question for you CF & jQuery coders…<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>What’s the best (easiest) way to work with <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">AJAX</st1:place></st1:City>?<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>ColdFusion or jQuery?<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Why?<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I would appreciate your insights…I haven’t used <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">AJAX</st1:place></st1:City>, yet,<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>but I’m really interested in trying to figure it out. It
would<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>be especially useful in some of the web-based apps that I’m<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>building that would be used in place of traditional software.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Being able to avoid page changes and page refreshes would<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>go a long way in helping me sell people on the apps.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Rick<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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