Javascript and you

[RMcGirr83]

..well actually me.

My js foo is weak, where can someone go to learn about it and use it. Preferably not in greek which is what most javascript files look like to me as is.

[Mr. Bond]

I don't remember how I learned JavaScript, or where. Just Internet tutorials I guess. The syntax is very similar to PHP so that makes it easier. Using a good library (*cough* jQuery) can make writing JS code a lot simpler, only needing basic calls to functions to be able to do advanced shtuff (like make AJAX post/requests).

[onehundredandtwo]

I definitely prefer not to use Javascript, mainly because it's not all standardized (by the W3C) and nearly all of the time CSS can be used for simpler things. Plus I don't really see any reason to make things more complicated, best to stay simple.

I don't really like jQuery because all it does is create effects which are pretty useless and it adds unnecessary bloat.

[Obsidian]

Personally, I use javascript minimally. I'm not familiar with it, and I find it not to be useful in most circumstances when I code.

[RMcGirr83]

[RMcGirr83]

Farken thing is giving me a damn headache. What I believe to be a pretty simple thing is turning out to be a GD nightmare.

All I want to do is refresh at a given interval the "Who's on line" stats (registered users, guests etc).

It is causing me to ingest more beer than I probably should.

[igorw]

It's a little tricky. It will need AJAX.

[RMcGirr83]

[RMcGirr83]

[url=http://www.rmcgirr83.org/mchat.php]If anyone would care to see what happens[/url]

...wait until the page refreshes.

Could really, really, really, (insert infinity symbol here) use a bit 'o help. TIA.

[Obsidian]

What is the output of the refresh page?

[RMcGirr83]

[url=http://rmcgirr83.org/mods/before_refresh.jpg]before refresh[/url]

[url=http://rmcgirr83.org/mods/after_refresh.jpg]after refresh[/url]

TIA btw.

[Obsidian]

Yeah, I saw that. I mean, the code output of the page that is the source of the AJAX refresh.

[RMcGirr83]

[url=http://rmcgirr83.org/mods/refresh_output.jpg]output[/url]

It's basically the same that is output for the whois online stuff for a forum.

[Obsidian]

...No, no no no...

Ahh, you know how you are fetching the data from the internal resource, like a page on the forum (to provide the data for the AJAX request)? I need that URL -- I want to see what the actual code put out (like the raw HTML) would be.

[RMcGirr83]