In the next day the last version of my cms project with PHP 4.4.X Support is coming out.

The  2.x releases than are only working with  PHP 5.2.X and PHP 4.X is finished for me.

PHP 5 with xajax 0.6 is the right way for me because xajax is standard in my projects.

Dear Xajax developers

First of all: thank you for a great piece of software. Over the last couple of months I have been integrating xajax into my companys zend-based framework and have created an Xxx_Xajax_Controller and Xxx_Xajax_Crud class with it, which both turned out great and has really speeded up our ajax developement. I have not delved very far into the code itself as there hasn't been a need , but here is a couple of suggestions. Please correct me if these features already exists.

### Pure js ###
I dont like all that js in the head so it would be nice to have a method that returns pure javascript. ATM. im using this hack that strips out all the html from printJavascript():

/**
* prints out xajax javascript without the tags
*/
public function printJavascript () {
    if (@$_GET['pfw'] == 'xajax') {
        $js = $this->Xajax->getJavascript();
        $js = preg_replace('/<script[^>].*>/Uis', '', $js);
        $js = str_replace ('</script>', '', $js);
        $js = str_replace ('/* <![CDATA[ */', '', $js);
        $js = str_replace ('/* ]]> */', '', $js);
        $js .= "xajax.callback.global.onRequest = function() {xajax.$('loading').style.display = 'block';}
                xajax.callback.global.beforeResponseProcessing = function() {xajax.$('loading').style.display='none';}";
        echo $js;
        die();
}

and then I add <script src="/blah/controller.php?pfw=xajax"> in the head.

Maybe you could give printJavascript a parameter like printJavascript(xajax::PURE_JS) or something?

### Output buffer ###
It would be cool if there was a outputBuffer flag to xajax. Could be combined with a $xajax->configure('Debug To', ''theDivWhereIWantToWriteTheDebug'') that would write the buffered data to a div on the page.

### Exceptions ###
Should it be possible to do stuff like:

throw new xajaxException ('The article does not exist', xajax::CRITICAL);

and have xajax catch it and output it to page on a given div?

### Charset ###
We have a couple of sites in latin1. It would look prettier with just _one_ setting instead of:

$this->Xajax->configure('characterEncoding', $charset);
$this->Xajax->setCharEncoding($charset);
$this->Xajax->setFlag('decodeUTF8Input', true);

which seems to be the winning combination. Maybe the middle line is not neccesary come to think of it, but still:)

### Questions ###
1) Have there ever been any thoughts about a mapping between xajax requests and normal non-javascript requests? It seems almost doable to have the pages degrade gracefully. This is something I will be looking at in the time to come.

### return $xajaxResponse(); ###
Thats it, again thx a lot and is looking forward seeing the 0.6 version. Let me you if there is anything I can do to help!

Rune

Last edited by rune_kg (2008-11-02 11:21:29 AM)

Ok, ok, so xajax already does that

Thx for you reply. Regarding the exception thing its stupid anyway.

Last edited by rune_kg (2008-11-03 1:19:08 PM)

I second the debug popup suggestion above.  I also wouldnt mind being able to control the debug output a little, maybe being able to grab its contents and toss it in my own custom error log for further review.

The only other suggestion I have is playing friendlier with the larger libraries, but that is neither teams fault.  I've tried using jQuery modal windows with Xajax forms and it just doesn't work.  Doesn't help that I don't know Javascript, otherwise could probably get it to work.

Keep up the awesome work, I'm sure it the next release will be gold.

yeah, we are definitely going to drop php4 support in the next version. The decision is not final yet, but I think we'll release a php5 strict version of xajax 0.5 soon after 0.5 is finally stable, perhaps xajax 0.5.5...

There is no snapshot. I don't want to maintain 2 versions atm...

Hi everyone,

we made a good progress on 0.6 since the stable release of 0.5 and I want to give you a sneak preview about the new features and changes:

• fully PHP5 strict valid

• JSON response support (you can set the preferred response type by ->configure('responseType','JSON') or XML );

• improved xajax.getFormValues (the function doesn't parse childNodes of selects anymore)

• faster argument processing (the xajaxArgumentManager class now uses simpleXML)

• the xajaxResponse class now merges subsequent script and append calls automatically to reduce the processing/transport overhead

• unit testing framework

• CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) protection

• backwards compatible (easy migration from 0.5)

• removed all legacy / deprecated functions

All changes are available in our SVN trunk on SourceForge. We are also going to release a preview release (alpha) soon. If you are already using the latest syntax (configure instead of setFlag, xajax.request() instead of xajax.call,...) you should be able to migrate to 0.6 by just replacing your old xajax 0.5 install.

If you have any additional wishes or suggestions let us know before it's too late!

We'll skip 0.5.5 and start directly with 0.6. The current progress is really good and we're getting close to a preview version, perhaps even beta by the end of this month.

I think many advanced features can be done ilke:

1 - Call a responde on MVC architeture, example:  http://site.com/login/  or http://site.com/user/new

     onclick='xajax_call( "http://site.com/user/new", xajax.getformValues("form", true) );'

2 - Define xajax functions from static functions from classes, example:
   
     class User {
           
             public static function register($data) {
                    ....
             }

     }

$Ajax->register(XAJAX_FUNCTION, User->register);

hi... it's been some time now any ideas on when is 0.6 going to be available? I really love this framework. Thanks.