By ponkarthik on

Hi everyone,

I would like to use AJAX (to submit form data and get response) for a simple module I am developing. From the disscussion that has been going on in the forums I have learnt about the functions (HTTPPost, HTTPGet etc) available in misc/drupal.js. But I have no idea as how to implement these functions. Can anybody point me to a 'HOW TO' or else provide me some examples on how to use this functions.

Perhaps a handbook page in the module developers guide could be dedicated for this purpose as I believe many are eager to try AJAX with Drupal.

I saw some 'HOW TO' for using XAJAX/SAJAX libraries but since the above mentioned functions are already included I thought it will be better to use them ? Please let me know your ideas and suggestions.

Thanks

Karthik

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Good suggestion for a handbook page, I've started one (http://drupal.org/node/42403, draft only visible to admins as yet) and will make it viewable when it's useful.

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Okay, I've roughed in some tips and guidelines at http://drupal.org/node/42403. It's still pretty rough, but may provide some useful hints.

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ponkarthik commented

Your handbook page was very informative. But I am at a loss as how to use the 'HTTPPost' method to submit a form.

Can you please provide an example on how to use the 'HTTPPost' method to submit form values and how to access them in the module's handler function

Thanks

Karthik

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Thox commented

Just checking up on all the Ajax threads that I may have misssed in the past. It would be nice if HTTPPost could submit a form automatically and handle all the extras by itself, but it currently doesn't.

You would currently need to create a JS object containing name->value pairs of the form elements and their values.