On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 15:08, Laura McCord wrote:
Hi Chris,
If not, I'd suggest trying to implement this in very, very small pieces. e.g. make a JavaScript function that does something simple like, >calls an XML-RPC method that returns "1+1" and then displays the result 2 within the DOM using JavaScript, then build up from there incrementally.
Yes, this is my biggest problem, how do I call a simple xml-rpc method from javascript?
The xml-rpc server is not a zope server it is a perl script that is running on my local computer.
Ideally this is what I what to do, I want to click on a link and onclick will call a javascript function and that function will call a xml-rpc method, this will all occur in my zope page template. Sounds basic, but I don't know where to start.
I just started learning xml-rpc so I don't know all of the technicalities behind it, so I am so sorry for not explaining myself correctly before.
Well, doing something like XML-RPC with Javascript is like trying to get a couple of elephants dancing on tip toes. If you can, avoid such a solution completely. If not and you cannot choose your auditory (e.g. their browsers and the configuration of their browsers) consider using a plugin, for example Flash. This would work at least relieable. Javascript has no way making a request to a server, you are always tricking with loading in invisible (i)frames and stuff which is bound to a lot of restrictions even on browsers which "support" it. Regards Tino