AJAX ASP/PHP

AJAX is used to create more dynamic applications.

AJAX ASP/PHP Example

The following example will show you how the web page communicates with the web server when the user types characters in the input box: Please type letters (A - Z) in the input box below:

Instance

<html><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function showHint(str)
{
var xmlhttp;
if (str.length==0)
  { 
  document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML="";
  return;
  }
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
  {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
    {
    document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
    }
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","/try/ajax/gethint.php?q="+str,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h3>Start typing a name in the input field below:</h3>
<form action=""> 
First name: <input type="text" id="txt1" onkeyup="showHint(this.value)" />
</form>
<p>Suggestions: <span id="txtHint"></span></p> 

</body>
</html>

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Instance analysis - showHint() function

When the user types characters in the input box above, Execute the function "showHint()". This function is triggered by the "onkeyup" event:

Source code analysis:

If the input box is empty (str.length==0), this function clears the content of the txtHint placeholder and exits the function.

If the input box is not empty, the showHint() function performs the following tasks:

Create an XMLHttpRequest object
When the server Execute the function when the response is ready
Send the request to a file on the server
Please note that we added a parameter q (with Contents of the input box)

AJAX Server Page - ASP and PHP

The server page called by the above JavaScript is an ASP file named "gethint. asp".

Below, we create two versions of the server file, one written in ASP and the other written in PHP.

ASP file

The source code in "gethint.asp" checks an array of names and returns the corresponding name to the browser:

<%
response.expires=-1
dim a(30)
'Fill up array with names
a(1)="Anna"
a(2)="Brittany"
a(3)="Cinderella"
a(4)="Diana"
a(5)="Eva"
a(6)="Fiona"
a(7)="Gunda"
a(8)="Hege"
a(9)="Inga"
a(10)="Johanna"
a(11)="Kitty"
a(12)="Linda"
a(13)="Nina"
a(14)="Ophelia"
a(15)="Petunia"
a(16)="Amanda"
a(17)="Raquel"
a(18)="Cindy"
a(19)="Doris"
a(20)="Eve"
a(21)="Evita"
a(22)="Sunniva"
a(23)="Tove"
a(24)="Unni"
a(25)="Violet"
a(26)="Liza"
a(27)="Elizabeth"
a(28)="Ellen"
a(29)="Wenche"
a(30)="Vicky"

'get the q parameter from URL
q=ucase(request.querystring("q"))

'lookup all hints from array if length of q>0
if len(q)>0 then
   hint=""
   for i=1 to 30
     if q=ucase(mid(a(i),1,len(q))) then
       if hint="" then
         hint=a(i)
       else
         hint=hint & " , " & a(i)
       end if
     end if
   next
end if

'Output "no suggestion" if no hint were found
'or output the correct values
if hint="" then
   response.write("no suggestion")
else
   response.write(hint)
end if
%>

PHP 文件

下面的代码用 PHP 编写，与上面的 ASP 代码作用是一样的。

<?php
// Fill up array with names
$a[]="Anna";
$a[]="Brittany";
$a[]="Cinderella";
$a[]="Diana";
$a[]="Eva";
$a[]="Fiona";
$a[]="Gunda";
$a[]="Hege";
$a[]="Inga";
$a[]="Johanna";
$a[]="Kitty";
$a[]="Linda";
$a[]="Nina";
$a[]="Ophelia";
$a[]="Petunia";
$a[]="Amanda";
$a[]="Raquel";
$a[]="Cindy";
$a[]="Doris";
$a[]="Eve";
$a[]="Evita";
$a[]="Sunniva";
$a[]="Tove";
$a[]="Unni";
$a[]="Violet";
$a[]="Liza";
$a[]="Elizabeth";
$a[]="Ellen";
$a[]="Wenche";
$a[]="Vicky";

//get the q parameter from URL
$q=$_GET["q"];

//lookup all hints from array if length of q>0
if (strlen($q) > 0)
{
   $hint="";
   for($i=0; $i<count($a); $i++)
     {
     if (strtolower($q)==strtolower(substr($a[$i],0,strlen($q))))
       {
       if ($hint=="")
         {
         $hint=$a[$i];
         }
       else
         {
         $hint=$hint." , ".$a[$i];
         }
       }
     }
}

// Set output to "no suggestion" if no hint were found
// or to the correct values
if ($hint == "")
{
$response="no suggestion";
}
else
{
$response=$hint;
}

//output the response
echo $response;
?>