Developing AHAH Submit Functionality
This post is intended to pull together my thinking and some of the discussions that took place in Boston around how to get a solid framework in place for real next-generation javascript into core for Drupal 7. My specific interest is in taking the promise of Nedjo Rodgers ajaxsubmit.module (part of the jstools project) and overhaul it to work in harmony with the amazing new AHAH features in Drupal 6.
My objective is to release a solid contrib module for Druapl 6.0 which provides a good framework for developers interested in this functionality, and implements some useful default behavior that will give it some purpose and life "out of the box." Assuming I can make decent progress on this in the next six weeks, this is a good way to figure out what's needed, and define functionality and code which can be engineered into Drupal core for the 7.0 release.
The full post here contains my initial spec, thinking on how to accomplish all this, and first experiments with extending the existing ajaxsubmit module.
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Lesson #35 - Leveraging the AHAH capabilities in Drupal 6
This week in the Dojo, quicksketch will introduce the AHAH framework (think Ajax) in Drupal 6. The framework allows developers to build forms that dynamically change, without writing any new javascript. Come see examples of AHAH in core, and how you can AHAH enable contributed modules, such as adding a "More" fields button.
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Dynamic Views module (AHAH page loads)
Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let you know about a new views related module, Dynamic Views. (http://drupal.org/project/dynamic_views) It allows you to dynamically update the main content area (no page reload) when you click a node link in a view block. It also allows you to change dynamically update a view using a filter at the top. You can combine it with some elements of the jquery interface library for some pretty cool effects. (see http://warnerbrosrecords.com/artists)
