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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By : Jay L Johnston
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By: Jay L Johnston

Overview of this book

MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember syntax. Animation and interaction, once the domain of Flash, are being taken by storm by the MooTools JavaScript framework, which can cause size, shape, color, and opacity to transition smoothly. Discover how to use AJAX to bring data to today's web page users who demand interactivity without clunky page refreshes. When searching for animation and interactivity solutions that work, MooTools 1.3 Cookbook has individual, reusable code examples that get you running fast! MooTools 1.3 Cookbook readies programmers to animate, perform AJAX, and attach event listeners in a simple format where each section provides a clear and cross-browser compatible sketch of how to solve a problem, whether reading from beginning to finish or browsing directly to a particular recipe solution. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook provides instant solutions to MooTools problems – whatever you want to do with MooTools, this book will tell you how to do it. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is presented in a progressive order that builds concepts and ideas, while simultaneously being a collection of powerful individual, standalone, recipe solutions.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Displaying cross domain remote data via Ajax within a DIV


Ajax, inherently, cannot make a call to another domain. When we need to grab remote data from another domain, we have to turn to some kind of helper to get the data.

Getting ready

This example requires either PHP or ColdFusion to be installed on our development machine. The example shows a call to 05_remote_data.php. If we are using ColdFusion, please use the included snippet named 05_remote_data.cfm instead.

The recipe is a continuation of what we are working on in the previous, local data request recipe. When we are familiar with those concepts, adding the remote call will be an easy stepping stone.

How to do it...

Interestingly, the client-side portion of this only changes in the URL variable. We call the server-side script instead of the static, local data page.

<script type="text/javascript" src="mootools-1.3.0.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="javascript:" method="get">
<input type="button...