Hey all, first of all; a big thank you to all of you for replying, rather than mix up my replies to all of you I will write my response to you under your name as I have gotten so many different leads/opinions/views. One last requirment I forgot to mention before was that I wanted to work with PHP 4 only, I have not totally upgraded my knowledge to PHP5...I did find a few classes on the php classes site for PHP5 that looked promising but didnt work too well with what I had in mind. Eric Wood: ------------ Thanks for the link, will look into it, from your reply it sounds really simple, at worst will learn something new :-) Manuel Lemos: ---------------- Thanks for the links and the info, quite a bit that I didnt know about, esp the IE6 part and activeX Rasmus Lerdorf: ----------------- That was a real long explanation; the least I can do is give the Yahoo package another go since you took so much time to write that explanation with the example. :-) Problem is; its been ages since I fooled around with the JS DOM and to say I am rusty would be an understatement. I had already downloaded the "YUI.zip" file. Thanks again. Carlin Bingham / Tedd: ----------------------- Yes, but then I would have to reload the whole page just to tell the person that the account username was already taken...thats how its "traditionally" done...but I want to try doing it without reloading the whole page...hence Asynchronous JavaScript And XML (AJAX) although the XML part at the end is not really too accurate because from what I see you can (and i have) use AJAX without any XML...in my case it would be AJAH or AJAT (H=HTML, T=TEXT) :-p The other thing is, I thought I would start with something simple but still real world and then work myself up to more complex stuff.... thats how I learnt PHP; even though I didnt start with the "Hello world" in PHP I started with basic strings and with the help of a book (PHP Blackbook) and this list (better than any book) I rarely program in anything other than PHP now. "AJAX" is one of the new "hot words" over here and I see quite a few job openings with this word used even though going the the employers site I see very basic or non existant use of it (or even unnecessary use of it), it does not seem very distant from normal programming (and i used to fool around with JS a while back) so might as well learn a bit about it and add a little more to the old CV ;-) In closing....all of you............. get your butts off the chair and off the computer............................and have a nice weekend! Cheers, Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
