Probably pretty simple

[Wulfgen]

Hi All,

this is probably straight foward to some of you, but I'm either going brain-dead or am just loopy.

I have a simple option select menu

<select id="contractor" onchange="put_file_contents(document.getElementById('contractor').value,document.getElementById('chosen_link'));">
<option>Find a Contractor</option>
<option value="001.txt">Contractor 1</option> 
<option value="002.txt">Contractor 2</option> 
<option value="003,txt">Contractor 3</option>  
</select><p>
<textarea name="chosen_link" id="chosen_link"cols="" rows=""></textarea>

and I'm trying to populate the textarea with the contents of external .txt files. I'm using this script:

 function put_file_contents(url, output){ 
  var httpRequest; 
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ... 
   httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest(); 
  }  
  else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE 
   try { 
   httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); 
   }  
   catch (e) { 
   try { 
    httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); 
   }  
   catch (e) {} 
   } 
  } 
  if (!httpRequest) { 
   alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance'); 
   return false; 
  } 
  httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { 
   if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) { 
   if (httpRequest.status == 200) { 
    output.value = httpRequest.responsetext; 
   } 
   else { 
    output.value = "No Data Available"; 
   } 
   } 
   else { 
   output.value = "Loading..."; 
   } 
  }; 
  httpRequest.open('GET', url, true); 
  httpRequest.send(''); 
}

but it appears to not work at all - i've been around and about the web - but mostly i find either database or asp types or populate the menu - this is not what I'm after.

All I'm trying to do is have the contents of each txt file display in the textarea, the txt file contains a list of contractors and phone numbers for a given area.

Does this seem crazy?

 

[Zhris]

Hi,

Your script works almost fine for me, with the exception that "responsetext" should be "responseText" -> [blue](output.value = httpRequest.responseText[/blue]

When you say it does not work at all, do you recieve any javascript errors, or is nothing ever displayed in the textarea etc?

Chris

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Are you running this through a web server (

http://)

or a local file protocol (file://). If the latter, try the former.

Also see forum1600 for more on AJAX.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[Wulfgen]

Hi Zhris'

tried your output value remedy but no response

and also for Billy Ray

what I mean by no response is that the text box displays no text (doesnt load) and just displays the error message

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

And that error message is ?



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[Wulfgen]

No Data Available

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I'd assumed when you said 'error message' that it was actually a JS error message rather than just your own string.

Perhaps you can alert the status code and see what it is coming back as, as it's clearly not 200...

Dan



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[Zhris]

Are your txt files (001,002 and 003) located in the current working directory?

Here is where I uploaded and tested your script which works fine.

http://test.massweb.co.uk/index2.htm

(check source code)

Chris

 

[Wulfgen]

Here's my error: <option value="003,txt">Contractor 3</option>

notice the comma instead of the dot.... oi, its the little things