[jQuery] Re: Can you poll a database with jQuery or do I just use plain ajax?

2008-04-07 Thread Davey Waterson
Jaxer allows you to use javascript and jquery on the server to mess with DB/Filesystem/Remote Sites from the client. Calls to serverside code look exactly like regular javascript. http://ejohn.org/blog/server-side-javascript-with-jaxer/ http://www.aptana.com/node/336 I do recommend it as a gr

[jQuery] Re: Can you poll a database with jQuery or do I just use plain ajax?

2008-04-07 Thread marr.adam
As with any js, since it runs client-side, you cannot use it to query a Db, only to call something else that will, such as making a request to a PHP script or server-side java. PHP is the simplest way. You can either have the php return the markup to display or maybe have it return json object an