// vim: set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4: // +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ // +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ // | Authors..: J. Lawson john.lawson@scriobha.im | // | Date.....: 06.16.2006 | // | Notes....: Retrieve XML based documents of key/value pairs and populate| // | the specified selection form elelment. | // | Use this as an include and call loadXMLDoc() with required | // | parameters. | // | Usage: | // | Between the | // | Assuming that you are calling from an element of [name]Code,| // | call the main function: | // | onClick="loadXMLDoc(this.form, '[name]Code', | // | '[value appended to URL]', '[URL that returns XML]');" | // | NOTE: The loadXMLDoc assumes you have a function available | // | called match. This is a basic regex function if you want to | // | create your own. // | Works in IE 5.5 and Mozilla 0.7/0.7.1 | // +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ //-- AJAX population of Lead Owner Selection box ---// function loadXMLDoc(form, name, value, url) { //-- process basic info formName = form; if(name.match('Code')){ elementName = replace(name,'Code',''); } else if(name.match('Display')){ elementName = replace(name,'Display',''); } //-- prep the URL string sendURL = url + value; req = false; //-- Make sure we have the final var and we are dealing with a valid request if(value){ //--- branch for native XMLHttpRequest object (Firefox) if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { req = new XMLHttpRequest(); req.onreadystatechange = processReqChangeXML; req.open("GET", sendURL, true); req.send(null); //--- branch for Windows ActiveX version (IE) } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); if (req) { req.onreadystatechange = processReqChangeXML; req.open("GET", sendURL, true); req.send(); } } } //-- Null value passed, reset the form element else{ eval("document."+formName.name+"."+elementName+"Select.options.length = 0"); eval("document."+formName.name+"."+elementName+"Select.options[0]=new Option('Please change the previous item','')"); } } //-- Process the data coming back --// // This function is called on the event change of // Ready State Change from the previous function function processReqChangeXML() { var code; var display; var response; optionArray = new Array(); //-- Let the user know that something is happening eval("document."+formName.name+"."+elementName+"Select.options.length = 0"); eval("document."+formName.name+"."+elementName+"Select.options[0]=new Option('Searching...', '')"); //-- only if req shows "complete" if (req.readyState == 4) { //-- only if "OK" from web server if (req.status == 200) { response = req.responseXML.documentElement; //-- Loop through and populate the array with the option data for(a=0; a