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Finally rolling out me: My online VCard.

So, it has been quite a while since I posted on my own website. In the past 2 years, there have been what 2 posts? I’ve barely even looked at it just dropping in long enough to clear out some spam comments or deal with someone who thinks this is the perfect platform to be hateful on. Where have I been? Well, I’m in the process of moving all of my WordPress Plugins and content over to my business website at AaHa Creative and I’ve started a web development blog there.

Just open up your php.ini file and set error_reporting to error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED.

There have been no posts for a while now and none of the updates to AJAXed WordPress or my other plugins have been pushed out. There is a lot of stuff (of the good kind) that is going on in my life currently, so I’ve put everything else on the back burner. Thank you for your understanding. P.S. Don’t you hate posts like this? Me too!

I wanted to see how small you could make a fully functional AJAX script that worked cross-browser and degraded gracefully, so I went through an old custom AJAX script and made it as small as I possibly could. In the resulting AJAX scripts, the post version is 410 characters and the GET version is only 359 characters long. The scripts are fully functional and accept the following parameters: URL, DATA (in string form), and ELEMENT (to update).

The scripts could be a little smaller, but it would really kill readability.

“Get” AJAX Script

function a(l,d,u){
try{r = new XMLHttpRequest();}catch(e){try {r = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');}catch(e){r = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');}}
if(r){
r.onreadystatechange = function() {if (r.readyState == 4 && r.status == 200){document.getElementById(u).innerHTML = r.responseText;}}
r.open('GET', l+'?'+d, true);r.send(d);
}
}

“Post” AJAX Script

function b(l,d,u){
try{r = new XMLHttpRequest();} catch(e){try {r = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');} catch(e){r = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');}}
if(r){
r.onreadystatechange = function() {if (r.readyState == 4 && r.status == 200){document.getElementById(u).innerHTML=r.responseText;}}
r.open('POST', l, true);r.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');r.send(d);
}
}

Combined AJAX Script

This combined script also accepts a fourth parameter ‘p’ that should evaluate true if the data is to be sent by post.

function a(l,d,u,p){
try{r = new XMLHttpRequest();}catch(e){try {r = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');}catch(e){r = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');}}
if(r){
r.onreadystatechange = function() {if (r.readyState == 4 && r.status == 200){document.getElementById(u).innerHTML = r.responseText;}}
if(p){r.open('POST', l, true);r.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');}else{r.open('GET', l+'?'+d, true);}
}
}

Demo: (Sorry but you will have to go to the full page so the JavaScript is loaded.)

The best thing to come out of YouTube since the Kiwi: the Gummy bear song. Oder, ich bin ein gummi Bär; ich bin ein gummi Bär. All right, all right. Back to your regularly scheduled broadcasting.

Finally rolling out me: My online VCard.

So, it has been quite a while since I posted on my own website. In the past 2 years, there have been what 2 posts? I’ve barely even looked at it just dropping in long enough to clear out some spam comments or deal with someone who thinks this is the perfect platform to be hateful on. Where have I been? Well, I’m in the process of moving all of my WordPress Plugins and content over to my business website at AaHa Creative and I’ve started a web development blog there.

Just open up your php.ini file and set error_reporting to error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED.

There have been no posts for a while now and none of the updates to AJAXed WordPress or my other plugins have been pushed out. There is a lot of stuff (of the good kind) that is going on in my life currently, so I’ve put everything else on the back burner. Thank you for your understanding. P.S. Don’t you hate posts like this? Me too!

I wanted to see how small you could make a fully functional AJAX script that worked cross-browser and degraded gracefully, so I went through an old custom AJAX script and made it as small as I possibly could. In the resulting AJAX scripts, the post version is 410 characters and the GET version is only 359 characters long. The scripts are fully functional and accept the following parameters: URL, DATA (in string form), and ELEMENT (to update).

The scripts could be a little smaller, but it would really kill readability.

“Get” AJAX Script

function a(l,d,u){
try{r = new XMLHttpRequest();}catch(e){try {r = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');}catch(e){r = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');}}
if(r){
r.onreadystatechange = function() {if (r.readyState == 4 && r.status == 200){document.getElementById(u).innerHTML = r.responseText;}}
r.open('GET', l+'?'+d, true);r.send(d);
}
}

“Post” AJAX Script

function b(l,d,u){
try{r = new XMLHttpRequest();} catch(e){try {r = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');} catch(e){r = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');}}
if(r){
r.onreadystatechange = function() {if (r.readyState == 4 && r.status == 200){document.getElementById(u).innerHTML=r.responseText;}}
r.open('POST', l, true);r.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');r.send(d);
}
}

Combined AJAX Script

This combined script also accepts a fourth parameter ‘p’ that should evaluate true if the data is to be sent by post.

function a(l,d,u,p){
try{r = new XMLHttpRequest();}catch(e){try {r = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');}catch(e){r = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');}}
if(r){
r.onreadystatechange = function() {if (r.readyState == 4 && r.status == 200){document.getElementById(u).innerHTML = r.responseText;}}
if(p){r.open('POST', l, true);r.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');}else{r.open('GET', l+'?'+d, true);}
}
}

Demo: (Sorry but you will have to go to the full page so the JavaScript is loaded.)

The best thing to come out of YouTube since the Kiwi: the Gummy bear song. Oder, ich bin ein gummi Bär; ich bin ein gummi Bär. All right, all right. Back to your regularly scheduled broadcasting.