AJAX Archive

  • Google Maps API part 1: Accurate Geocoding for UK Postcodes

    Google Maps API part 1: Accurate Geocoding for UK Postcodes

    Recently I had to build a system that would take an address, pass it to google and return latitude and longitude values. The result is then stored for later use and display on Google maps. However, firstly I found that the default XML geocoding service...

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  • Using Javascript/ AJAX to post HTML form data

    Using Javascript/ AJAX to post HTML form data

    Why would you need to do this? Well for instance if you were using 3rd party AJAX APIs and you wanted to capture the data from them perhaps, or maybe you just have a complex form. Or you could use this for form validation to...

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  • Creating XML from PHP/ MySQL for use with SPRY

    Creating XML from PHP/ MySQL for use with SPRY

    So lets say for example you have a table in your database and you want to return some results, pretty easy with PHP/ MySQL and I dare say easy enough with other languages. Now rather than return the results to the page and format them...

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  • Using SPRY to fetch values from a URL

    Using SPRY to fetch values from a URL

    And then filter an XML file based on the values passed from the URL. If you’re not aware, Adobe now has it’s own AJAX/Javascript library called SPRY for you to use and better yet they include this with Dreamweaver CS3. I assume that you already...

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