On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, inhahe <inh...@gmail.com> wrote: > i'm pretty new to javascript programming, but i'm pretty sure you just > need ajax, which AFAIK is a highly technical way of saying "using > javascript in a way that makes web pages interactive" > JSON afaik is a way of data to and from the server that allows for > lists and more variable types and such, but also requires the user > download a third-party js file that implements JSON. i don't think > you'd technically need JSON, because you could simply send the server > a string of all the colors selected delimited by a space or | or > something. > javascript also probably has inherent functions for generating xml, > considering that the object you use to communicate with the server is > an xmlhttprequst. but i think xml might be overkill in this case. > > the javascript would populate the list for the colors the user selects > (the easiest way would probably be to give the list an id and use > getElementByID()), and then when he's done it would create an > xmlhttprequest object to send the data to the server. >
If I'm not mistaken, that won't help me actually print to screen the user's choices as he selects them, which in my application, is important. Please advise. TIA, V > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Victor Subervi <victorsube...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi; > > I need a recommendation. I want to print out data like this: > > > > <td bgcolor='blue'><a href='???'>blue</a></td> > > <td bgcolor='red'><a href='???'>red</a></td> > > > > and enable the user to select the various colors he wants to add to a > list > > that would populate itself on the same page where the selections are, and > > then, once he's selected all the colors he wants, click to add them all > at > > once to a table in a database, and move on to the next page. I believe > this > > is achieved through JSON and AJAX; however, I haven't been able to google > > any demonstrations of this sort. Am I correct, or should I use some other > > sort of technology? > > TIA, > > Victor > > > > -- > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > >
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