Thanks Jack, that helps a lot. So much that I nearly got it to work :) I hoped to get it working with the validation plugin but I gave up trying after a few hours. The problems I had was 1) every time I included config info i.e. $.AjaxCFCHelper.setDebug(false), the page refused to load and 2) when the page did load and I submitted my form firebug reported:
jquery.AjaxCFC.js (line 165): JSON is not defined I wish I had more time, it would be incredibly useful to return queries etc. Thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Killpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <jquery-en@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 8:15 PM Subject: [jQuery] Re: ColdFusion, ajax, post, jquery and whitespace Oh yeah, and of course include the path to jquery.AjaxCFC.js in your HTML: <script type="text/javascript" src="../js/ajaxCFC/jquery.AjaxCFC.js"></script> - Jack Jack Killpatrick wrote: > > Hi Gareth, > > Here are the basics: > > 1. add ajaxCFC to your CF project (or somewhere that it can get to). > > 2. create a CFC that extends AJAXCFC.ajax: > > <cfcomponent extends="AJAXCFC.ajax"> > > <!--- security stuff ---> > <cfscript> > setAllowedVerbs('POST'); > setCheckHTTPReferer(true); > </cfscript> > > <cffunction name="myFunction" output="no" access="private"> > do some CF stuff > <cfreturn something /> > </cffunction> > </cfcomponent> > > For the cfreturn, you can return queries, structs, pretty much any cf > object (see the docs for any limitations, I've had good success having > cfreturn return structs, arrays of structs, queries, etc). > AJAXCFC.ajax will handle converting the "something" that you are > returning to the requested format (see #3): > > 3. Add config info to your js file/script (see docs for full set of > config options): > > $.AjaxCFCHelper.setDebug(false); > $.AjaxCFCHelper.setUseDefaultErrorHandler(false); > $.AjaxCFCHelper.setSerialization('json'); // json, wddx > > 4. call the remote CFC: > > $.AjaxCFC({ > url: "path/file.cfc", // your CFC > method: myFunction, > data: {}, > success: function(data){ showResults(data); } > }); > > showResults is called on success and data contains the json data. Use > Firebug or something to see what the format of the json data is (it's > very compact and gives you recordcount and colnames if you're > returning query data). > > - Jack > > > Gareth Hughes wrote: >> I'd like to see those code snippets Jack :) I looked at ajaxCFC a >> while back but didn't have time to figure things out so seeing some >> examples would be a great help. >> >> > ..... > >