Thanks for the reply Rick. I'm just barely starting to get started with jQuery and AJAX in general, and while PHP wasn't terribly hard to pick up, I'm always trying to find the proper flow of logic to do things with JavaScript. Generally I try and find a loose example of what I want that someone else did, and adapt it to my needs by trial and error - I always seem to learn best that way. But this particular thing I don't think I've seen before and I don't know the first place to look for an example. It's pretty baffling. My other thought was to pre-define 15 or so selects in the data stream for the AJAX request and only include in the literature request those select ID's that have values.. The problem there is, when a person selects a piece of literature, I'm not looping anything so I don't think I can incrementally increase a the ID/name of the select by 1. Or can I?
On Apr 8, 6:48 pm, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: > I don't have a solution for you, but just wanted to let you > know that I'm interested in this, as well. I'm planning > to build a real estate search interface that works with ajax > to return results to a calling page based on search choices > made by users. > > My thoughts were that I would just use various functions triggered > by the check of a certain box, or a selection in a dropdown, etc., > and all the search parameters would be scanned for their values > with any change. I'm afraid that could get a little processor intensive, > however, with all the constant processing and changing of parameters. > > I thought perhaps some kind of acceptable delay after changes might > allow users enough time to complete their search parameter changes before > triggering an ajax request. > > I don't know. I'm just in the "thinking about this" stage right now, but > will need to begin designing something in the next few weeks. > > But your idea of dynamically looping a group of variables based on class > sounds interesting. Haven't thought of that before. > > I'll have to check out the web2ajax you referenced. > > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > > Behalf Of Kinsbane > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:26 PM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] generate AJAX data based on number of select elements > > Okay, so I've been working with the Facebook Like autosuggest > thing:http://web2ajax.fr/2008/02/03/facebook-like-jquery-and-autosuggest-se... > gine/ > > I've adapted it to my system to make a request system for whatever > literature people want. They select something from the results, and a > div (within a form) gets populated with a li and a select box with the > quantity they want of that piece of literature. > > So I want to send this request to the server via AJAX/AHAH/AJAH > whatever, but I don't know how to dynamically include the SELECT > element's values into the data part of the $.ajax... I thought if > maybe I did a var for the different data fields, I could just pass > that one var to the $.ajax data option, but again, I'm stuck trying to > figure out how I can loop through the select elements with classname > of "litqty" and add them to the data var to pass to the $.ajax > function > $(function() { > var reqData = { > $('.litqty').each( > //do something here to add it like this: > unique-id-or-name-of-select: value-of-select > ); > } > $("form#form_search_country").submit(function() { > $.ajax('submitLitRequest.php', { > data: reqData > } > ); > }); > > I hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance for any help !
