AJAX's XMLHttpRequest Used To Bring Back PDF And Excel Docs?
May 14, 2006
Can I use the XMLHttpRequest object to call a url which would generate a PDF and then display it to the screen?
I'm new to AJAX and I'm very interested in using it to asychronously bring back documents with a content-type that IS NOT text/plain or text/html (like a PDF or Excel document) and then display that document to the screen. I have a web application that dynamically generates PDF and Excel documents. A user may have to wait a minute for the new doc to be created and displayed to the user. I want to put an animated notice saying the doc is being generated similar to what you see when you execute a search on a search engine. I've tried using animated gifs (with frames, etc.) but they don't work. As soon as a request is sent for the PDF, the browser halts the gif in IE. If I could instead call the URL that will produce the PDF asynchronously, then I could display the animated gif and call the PDF at the same time. Once the PDF is generated, I want it to then be displayed to the screen.
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Sep 11, 2010
I setup a jquery ajax request to update my sql database... (add a product to shopping cart) then after it completes I want to use .load to re-load the shoppingcart (the cart is currently loaded with php include - so it is it's own seperate .php file). The problem is that when it reloads it doesn't have the "current version" If i refresh the page it's fine..
Example -
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#addtocart").click(function() {
$.ajax({
url: "addtocart.php",
data: **form data here**,
complete: function() { $("#cart").load("cart.php"); }
});
});
});
</script>
<div id="cart">
<? include("cart.php"); ?>
</div>
<button id="addtocart">Add to cart</button>
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I have also tried to put a variable in front from the $.ajax and then use $("#cart").ajaxComplete(function() { $(this).load("cart.php"); } });
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I'll make it short. Here's the code (the GET request is taken from a Google example):
Code:
<html>
<script>
function hello() {
[Code]....
The problem: the alert never displays. Firebug shows xmlhttp.status = 0 and responseText = "" all the time. The page is on my local machine.
P.S> I've tried doing a synchronous call as well but that gives me an error message; something like 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send
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var excel_sheet = Book.Worksheets("Sheet1");
[code]....
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