You can call .stop() on your periodical updater object once you've created
it. Just have to save it away....
var updater = new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater(...);
if (someCondition) updater.stop();
Different issue - what the OP posted doesn't involve a PeriodicalUpdater.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:07 PM, voracious_reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Science answers questions; philosophy questions answers.
> >
>
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