Incorporating AJAX

[andy1234]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to incorporate ajax for all the links opened in the central column ( I have done similar things for other platforms ex. joomla). I am using the xajax library and the main loading concept as follows:

1) jscript at the end of the page (below the closing body tag) changes ALL the links on the page to be loaded via the xajax function (let's say load_xajax('target') to a specified div.

2) I remove all the headers, left and right columns from the targets to get a "raw" code to be loaded onto that div.

3) the "raw" code is loaded to the dedicated div below the breadcrumb

OK, everything works perfectly except one problem - I cannot extract the raw target code without body, head ets tags. If I am using the flags:

$flag_disable_left = true;
$flag_disable_right = true;
$flag_disable_header = true;
$flag_disable_footer = true;

it still generates the complete html page with all the tags (body, head and so on) and css links. As a result I am getting a page with the double html and body tags.

I tried to play with $body_code, but still cannot extract a valid target code to insert into the ajax div.

My question: how to extract the same code that is placed in the center column (require($body_code);)?

I would appreciate some advice from zen gurus.

Thanks

Andy

[andy1234]

Fixed it already.. I could not find anything better than making the second index2.php and tpl_main_page2.php to create an output of the central column only and without body/head tags

[juicevb10]

Would you mind sharing a link to your site? I'd like to check out the stuff you're doing with AJAX. I have some ideas to incorporate AJAX with Zen Cart.

[Merlinpa1969]

you need to remember that even though you set the header flag to false,
the html_header.php will automatically load

[andy1234]

It is almost done. I will give you a link in a few days when the site is ready

[jaycode]

Hi,

I was looking for a thread like this.

I have uploaded two AJAX Based modules (and a lot more I haven't published) but the way I learned it was guerilla based. In short, I developed my own way to apply AJAX which is by putting all the server files inside AJAX_servers folder.

If it is possible, I would like somebody more experienced to review my method. Although at this point I have not met any problem, I don't want to take the risk of going at the wrong direction.

The links to my modules are:

AJAX Image Swapper:
http://www.webextremecustomiser.com/...&products_id=1

and

AJAX Banner Swapper:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=855

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Jay