I have the same issue. I'm using Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater. I want to
stop making calls based on condition. How do I do it?
On Jun 4, 8:42 am, "Frederick Polgardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't think of any reason why you're seeing this. Can you post a complete
> page that demonstrates this? You might be calling form_db() over and over
> and not realizing it. Hard to tell.
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:37 AM, sheps-ii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm new to prototype and am having a problem with Ajax.Request. I find
> > that it basically just loops round and round and round forever, and
> > never finishes.
>
> > // uses ajax to attempt to connect to a database. Inserts either yes
> > or no into error div
> > function form_db(server, username, password, name)
> > {
> > //alert('hi');
> > new Ajax.Request('ajax_handler.php',
> > {
> > method:'get',
> > onSuccess: function(transport){
> > var response = transport.responseText || "no response text";
> > alert("Success! \n\n" + response);
> > },
> > onFailure: function(){ alert('Something went wrong...') }
> > });
>
> > }
>
> > This just constantly alerts "success + " the correct response from
> > php, but it alerts again and again and again and never stops! If I
> > comment out the prototype code and uncomment alert('hi'), that only
> > alerts once so it must be a problem with the prototype usage. Could
> > someone explain to me how to get it to just do one request then
> > finish?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Simon
>
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