Thank you - yeah, relative URL is ok - whole thing was a conflict between jQuery and Prototype - they both use '$' to shorten code footprint; working now Thanks Again
On Feb 25, 3:40 pm, Matt Foster <mattfoste...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your URL is relative, you sure this is correct? > > > new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater('clock', 'required/clock/gettime.php', > > Try testing it out with a regular Ajax.Request and listening to the > onSuccess/Failure/Exception events and see what is going on. > > -- > > http://positionabsolute.net > > On Feb 25, 10:10 am, Bhudda Ben <benjamin.rud...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am newbie to AJAX and scriptaculous (I know and use php & js) with > > what I hope is easy question. I am building a new homepage for my > > company with the idea that a basic shell of links and other widgets is > > always in browser, but center section changes to provide other > > commonly used company widgets. I have not yet started to play with > > center section - the main use of AJAX - but, and here is problem: > > > Company desires automatically updating time widget at bottom of page > > - this feature was already in use implemented in scriptaculous at our > > London office; this is why I am starting with scriptaculous rather > > than some other AJAX implementation. I stole the following code: > > > Head section: > > <script src="required/scriptaculous/lib/prototype.js" type="text/ > > javascript"></script> > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater('clock', 'required/clock/gettime.php', > > {asynchronous:true, frequency:60}); > > </script> > > > And of course, brought all the scriptacous code over to required/lib. > > > At bottom of page London original was: > > > <div id="clock" align="center"><?php include ("required/clock/ > > gettime.php"); ?></div> > > > I used that and also tried: > > > <span id="clock"> > > <?php > > //include clock footer > > include ("required/clock/gettime.php"); > > ?> > > </span> > > > (since I had the whole in table, thought I might need to go to span > > instead of div) > > > That's it - works in London, does not work in NY for me and London guy > > who did original long gone. > > > The only other difference is London site runs on Windows; mine runs on > > Linux - is that a prob?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---