I haven't looked at it in about a year or so, but I used JSRS with a few modifications in the past for a project. It's a bit overdone in my opinion, but it is a good way to learn the concept's behind exchanging data with the server using JS.
Basically JSRS, takes data passed to it, and passes the data as URL variables to a hidden iframe or ilayer. You can access these URL variables with CF the same as any other CF template. The part that makes JSRS so complex is that it handles arrays as well as simple strings, so it has to be able to serialize and deserialize js arrays. Overkill imo...you are better off ripping out what you need from JSRS and making your own library. His real innovation was figuring out exactly how to make an invisible iframe/ilayer across all 3 major platforms at the time. Today I think using the script tag is a better way to exchange data though. IFrame's are fine, but they make that annoying click in IE when the url is changed. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, November 22, 2002, 12:15:12 AM, you wrote: gec> Has anyone out there done anything with JSRS (JavaScript Remote Scripting) by gec> Brent Ashley (see http://ashleyit.com/rs/) and ColdFusion? If you don't know gec> what Remote Scripting is, it basically allows you to get information from the gec> server without refreshing the page -- for example database queries. There are gec> a lot of examples out there -- see http://ashleyit.com/rs/links.htm for some gec> links if you are interested. None of the links are done with CF though. gec> The current distribution of JSRS (v2.12) has a jsrsServer.cf5.inc file gec> packaged with it written by an author out of Taiwan. Problem is there are no gec> CF examples of any kind whatsoever available anywhere that I can find and thus gec> I thought I'd throw this out to cf-talk. gec> If anyone has used JSRS with CF I'd be most grateful to hear from you gec> offline. I'm trying to write an example in CF to help myself understand the gec> process better and I'm having some difficulties. gec> Thanks, gec> Grant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
