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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

Making Ajax calls to record the location of window widgets


Following along with the work we have done in the past three recipes on the draggable window widgets, we ready ourselves to send the window locations via Ajax to a server-side script that could be easily made to store a user's window and widget locations in a database.

How to do it...

Thus far, we did not need to know the locations of the hitters. The widget movement has been independent of the hitter it was landing in. Now, to record that data, name the hitters with unique ID attributes.

<div id="left">
<div class="hitter" id="loc1">
<div class="widget" id="w1">Widget 1</div></div>
<div class="hitter" id="loc2">
<div class="widget" id="w2">Widget 2</div></div>
</div>
<div id="center">
<div class="hitter" id="loc3">
<div class="widget" id="w3">Widget 3</div></div>
<div class="hitter" id="loc4">
<div class="widget" id="w4">Widget...