You can return xml or text, and that text can be an "innerhtml, json, or anything else you can dream up. For simply stuff I just return plain text strings, "innerhtml stuff" or even just a few "switches" and text in the text response for further Javascript processing. AHAH (async HTML & HTTP) instead of AJAX.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Mintz Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:56 PM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] So who's using Ajax anway? For you guys, does the X in AJAX really stand for XML? Or are you sending back finished HTML? When it's finished HTML, dropping it into your page is utter cake, but the front/back presentation/biz logic separation is less clean. When it's XML, you find yourself doing all that DOM stuff and it gets tedious. Why go to the trouble of generating XML if you never intend to do anything but turn it into HTML anyway? Unless I'm missing something... --- David Mintz http://davidmintz.org/ En Nueva York el tránsito de la belleza a la desolación sucede siempre expeditivamente, como si el principio universal de máxima eficiencia hubiera aconsejado la supresión de gradaciones intermedias. -- Antonio Muñoz Molina, Ventanas de Manhattan _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
