Well, why not start with the AJAX helper and the already built-in feature:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/632/autoComplete I believe that will be much faster to develop than your proposed solution with the modal form. And since you're in a hurry... On Apr 7, 9:32 pm, Faza <f...@ansi.pl> wrote: > Hello, > > this is the scenario: > > - I have a rather large form with some production details, blahblah. One > of the inputs can contain value from over 1300 available (more to be > exact, because it's ID, dimensions and layout - 5 to 7 fields each) > - as it would be silly and resource-hungry to parse all this data into > javascript arrays within the view, I've decided that I want to have a > popup window with a small form, which will close after choice made and > free the resources > - this form won't POST the data into controller, because it's only a > part of the whole form; the only thing it's gotta do is change value of > few inputs. > > I've been googling and read some examples using fancy modal forms using > jQuery, MooTools etcetc, but what I really need is just a simple popup > window with some AJAX calls. (later, when the project will be ready, I > will play around with more complex things for this, but atm i'm rather > in a hurry). > > The problem is, this is my first encounter with AJAX (not to mention I'm > a cake noob) and frankly, I don't even know where to start. > > I'll be really grateful for any tips/pointers/tuts/anything. > > Regards, > Jacek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
