Tutorial

• start using PlainAjax
• send ajax request to the server
• post data from HTML input elements
• inplace editor
• autoresend (implement a web-chat)

Send Ajax request to the server

Task description

Displaying the server's time or user's IP in a HTML element by clicking on links.

Working example

Clickable links

Server response

Implementation steps

• Create links and a DIV for the result of the requests.
• Make the links call a PlainAjax request when clicked
• In the PlainAjax request configure what server-side script to call and where to put the server response

The HTML Code

<a onclick="plainajax.request('respurl: servertime.php; resultloc: myresult;')">Display server time</a>
<a onclick="plainajax.request('respurl: userip.php; resultloc: myresult;')">Display user's IP</a>
<div id="myresult"></div>

Note: the server-side scripts (defined in respurl attribute) can be implemented in any language, java, ruby, php, etc..

Check another example on how to

• send an Ajax request to the webserver and display its response
• post data from HTML input elements to the server using Ajax
• autoresend (implement a web-based chat)