Better ways:
1) abandon window.onload and use:
document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
// my code here
});
2) abandon $('search_form').onsubmit and use:
var form = $('search_form');
Element.observe(form, 'submit', function() {
// my code here
});
=== but, if you really wan't to be smart about handling the form submit, you
should bind an event listener like this:
Element.observe(form, 'submit', handleFormSubmit.bindAsEventListener());
Now you need a function name "handleFormSubmit" with a first event argument
parameter, so like this:
function handleFormSubmit(e) { }
e is now the event "submit" and lots of useful information is now available
to you, for example the item that cause the submit event to occur,
IE., the button you just clicked. So you would have:
function handleFormSubmit(e) {
// first things first, stop the event from propagating
e.stop();
// get element from event object
var elm = e.element();
// determine which button was clicked and call appropriate next code
if(elm.readAttribute('value') == 'search')
// call some code
if(elm.readAttribute('value') == 'update')
// call some other code
}
See if you can get the above working and we can carry on with the rest of it
later. By the way, if you aren't using Firefox developer tools like FireBug
and the Web Developer toolbar, then you are missing out on some really
killer tools. Better get those very first.
Karl..
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