[jQuery] Re: Understanding JSON

2008-08-20 Thread hubbs
Yes it does. Thanks for the explanation. On Aug 20, 12:34 pm, ak732 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you're describing is more of a general AJAX thing.  JSON is just > an optional part of the whole AJAX mechanism.  It's the data *format*, > not the page update architecture.  You could use XML o

[jQuery] Re: Understanding JSON

2008-08-20 Thread ak732
What you're describing is more of a general AJAX thing. JSON is just an optional part of the whole AJAX mechanism. It's the data *format*, not the page update architecture. You could use XML or grow your own data format and still be updating only portions of the page, on demand, as opposed to d

[jQuery] Re: Understanding JSON

2008-08-20 Thread hubbs
Ah, I see. So the advantage here is that the server is just returning data to us, rather than a whole page, and having to use .find() to filter the page? Is it all based on speed, and bandwidth, or is there another huge advantage that I am missing? On Aug 20, 12:35 am, Giovanni Battista Lenoci

[jQuery] Re: Understanding JSON

2008-08-20 Thread ak732
> How would I use jQuery to write the values onto a page?  And how do > you go the other way, taking values and serializing them into JSON to > be sent to the server? For serializing, on the javascript side, between objects and JSON, you can use this public domain library: http://json.org/json2.j

[jQuery] Re: Understanding JSON

2008-08-20 Thread Mickster
Here's an article about JSON "in both directions" - shows how to send JSON from jQuery to the server and back (and how to handle the server response with jQuery). http://www.prodevtips.com/2008/08/15/jquery-json-with-php-json_encode-and-json_decode/ //Mickster On 20 Aug., 10:31, andrea varnier

[jQuery] Re: Understanding JSON

2008-08-20 Thread andrea varnier
On 20 Ago, 09:35, Giovanni Battista Lenoci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, if you do an ajax request to a page.php that do a query to > the db, and return the data, you'll user the function json_encode (php5, > or PEAR on php4) to write the response for javascript. if you cannot use tha

[jQuery] Re: Understanding JSON

2008-08-20 Thread Giovanni Battista Lenoci
hubbs ha scritto: I am trying to understand JSON, and could use a little help. How would I use jQuery to write the values onto a page? user = { "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "address": { "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street", "city": "New York", "st