[Typo3-dev] AJAX in TYPO3: call for volunteers

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing [DD]]

I quite like xajax for one reason: I do not have to take care of the 
javascript's ;)

Seriously, I am not JS-guru and like using xajax as I can just do the PHP 
part (beside fixing little things in the old xajax-libs, but they seem to be 
solved in the new version)

Good as well: There is active development going on. Not sure though if this 
is also the case with the other libs, so this might be no real benefit.

JH


"Sebastian Kurfuerst" <sebastian at garbage-group.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1134171421.25998.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi,
>
> as some of you might know, I created the t3lib_ajax library during the
> zap-the-gremlins period and implemented the clickmenu with it.
>
> After that, I discovered that many people are already working on AJAX in
> TYPO3, and we should provide a standardised interface for it.
>
> Currently, t3lib_ajax only does very simple things:
>      * provides a PHP function for outputting XML headers and the
>        target string wrapped in XML tags
>      * provides the possibility to create a JS handler for these
>        actions
>
> Problems I see with the current implementation:
>      * it is not written in JS OO, but this would be nicer. Anyways,
>        that is no bigger issue I think
>      * there might be problems with non-latin languages using UTF8.
>        This might be serious.
>      * There is no possibility to do any data manipulation on the
>        client side, this has to be done in JS "by hand".
>
> There are lots of AJAX frameworks around, some I noticed:
>      * rico http://openrico.org
>      * xajax http://xajax.sourceforge.net/
>
> I only had a closer look at xajax because it was used by some people of
> the community. Things I like about it: it seems to be implemented in a
> clean manner, and can handle encodings automatically, and can update the
> DOM on the client automatically.
>
> I don't know if it is possible to use an already existing library as the
> AJAX framework within TYPO3, if yes, this could give us lots of
> possibilitys if we do the right choice. However, until now, TYPO3 has
> always done own implementations (DBAL for example), so maybe this is the
> way to go here as well.
> Any comments on this issue?
>
> Currently, I don't have any time to dig deeper into that topic, however
> I think the ajax library should be ready for 4.0 without being changed
> anymore.
>
> So - is somebody interested and (more important) has time to check if it
> makes sense to integrate an external ajax library into TYPO3, and maybe
> continue developing t3lib_ajax? The basic stable framework should exist
> in TYPO3 4.0.
>
> I appreciate all comments and hope somebody has time and is willing to
> take over this task.
>
> Greets from Dresden and good night, Sebastian
>