Comments on: Ajax Search http://schinckel.net/2006/09/17/ajax-search/ Like a fortune cookie, only without the fortune, and not a cookie. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:22:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: the occasional blog http://schinckel.net/2006/09/17/ajax-search/#comment-1364 the occasional blog Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:18:07 +0000 http://schinckel.blogsome.com/2006/09/17/ajax-search/#comment-1364 <strong>AJAX on blogsome</strong> I am tingled. I was searching for ways to implement Elliot’s Better-than-live search . Based on this blogsome-forum post by the admins, it appears that blogsome does not have a separate page for search results. Which means we are stuck with long... AJAX on blogsome

I am tingled. I was searching for ways to implement Elliot’s Better-than-live search . Based on this blogsome-forum post by the admins, it appears that blogsome does not have a separate page for search results. Which means we are stuck with long…

]]> By: rajeev karamchedu http://schinckel.net/2006/09/17/ajax-search/#comment-1363 rajeev karamchedu Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:21:06 +0000 http://schinckel.blogsome.com/2006/09/17/ajax-search/#comment-1363 Gracias Amigo! 'Cause my understanding of the smarty/blogsome template system is very basic, I spent a whole day just trying to undertand the workflow... My original thought for blogsome's ajax search was just what you explained. Keeping with <a href="http://kreaper.blogsome.com" rel="nofollow">my blog's</a> theme of blind up/down menus, once the search is conducted (I also agree with Elliot that a search should not be performed the moment someone types a letter...), the results window can be in a "blind down" box... I would be concered about the weight of the page as a result of this JS hackery tho... Gracias Amigo! ‘Cause my understanding of the smarty/blogsome template system is very basic, I spent a whole day just trying to undertand the workflow…

My original thought for blogsome’s ajax search was just what you explained.

Keeping with my blog’s theme of blind up/down menus, once the search is conducted (I also agree with Elliot that a search should not be performed the moment someone types a letter…), the results window can be in a “blind down” box…

I would be concered about the weight of the page as a result of this JS hackery tho…

]]> By: Matthew Schinckel http://schinckel.net/2006/09/17/ajax-search/#comment-1362 Matthew Schinckel Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:18:22 +0000 http://schinckel.blogsome.com/2006/09/17/ajax-search/#comment-1362 As far as I can tell, I should be able to hijack the POST/GET command, and get the file using XMLHttpRequest. Then I can use the data that is returned by putting everything (except the code up to and including <code><body></code> and the code starting with <code></body></code>) into a new HTML element, that isn't really part of the document. Then, I can use JavaScript to grab the elements that have the required class, and create a list of title/url pairs that can be placed into the dynamically appearing results list. I'm really quite excited about this. I hope I have some time to do it this week. I might come up with some other ideas that use AJAX to do cool stuff on the blog, too. As far as I can tell, I should be able to hijack the POST/GET command, and get the file using XMLHttpRequest. Then I can use the data that is returned by putting everything (except the code up to and including <body> and the code starting with </body>) into a new HTML element, that isn’t really part of the document.

Then, I can use JavaScript to grab the elements that have the required class, and create a list of title/url pairs that can be placed into the dynamically appearing results list.

I’m really quite excited about this. I hope I have some time to do it this week.

I might come up with some other ideas that use AJAX to do cool stuff on the blog, too.

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