After doing some reading, I figured out that I was causing a race condition because my request was declared globally. I fixed this by making it local. So, it had nothing to do with the addPoint() function, but I just saw the affects there. I read this here (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_Started) on Step 3, Note 3. ~Philip On 10/24/07, Philip Thompson <philthathril@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi. I have this js function below. In it I grab the coordinates of where > the user clicked (on the map). I want to take these coordinates and stuff > 'em into a database, then display on the map where they clicked. Then I want > to display some links in another div (not the map). > > [js code] > function addPoint (e, imageId) > { > var pl = new Array(); > pl = map.pointLocation (e, CURRENT_POINT_SIZE); > > var url = 'addPoint.php?x='+pl['x']+'&y='+pl['y']+'&size='+ > CURRENT_POINT_SIZE+'&map='+imageId; > xmlHttpRequest (url, null, updateMap, 'GET'); > > url = 'updateForm.php?x='+pl['x']+'&y='+pl['y']+'&size='+ > CURRENT_POINT_SIZE+'&map='+imageId; > xmlHttpRequest (url, null, updateForm, 'GET'); > } > > function xmlHttpRequest (url, vars, callbackFunction, requestMethod) {...} > [/js code] > > Here, xmlHttpRequest is the method I call to perform the asynchronous > requests. Ok, if I don't make the 2nd call to it, the points show up fine on > the map (from the 1st request). If I make both calls, the points do NOT show > up, but the links (from the 2nd request) appear. > > Is there an issue with calling this more than once? I tried setting a > timeout for the 2nd request, but that didn't seem to help. Thoughts? > > Thanks in advance, > ~Philip >
