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AJAX - The XMLHttpRequest Object

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AJAX - More about the XMLHttpRequest object

Before sending data off to a server, we will look at three important properties of the XMLHttpRequest object.


The onreadystatechange property

After a request to a server, we need a function to receive the data returned from the server.

The onreadystatechange property stores the function that will process the response from a server. The function is stored in the property to be called automatically.

The following code sets the onreadystatechange property and stores an empty function inside it:

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
// We are going to write some code here
}


The readyState property

The readyState property holds the status of the server's response.

Each time the readyState property changes, the onreadystatechange function will be executed.

Possible values for the readyState property:

StateDescription
0The request is not initialized
1The request has been set up
2The request has been sent
3The request is in process
4The request is complete

Add an If statement to the onreadystatechange function to test if the response is complete (means that now we can get our data):

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if(xmlhttp.readyState==4)
  {
  // Get data from the server's response
  }
}


The responseText property

The data sent back from a server can be retrieved with the responseText property.

Now, we want to set the value of the "Time" input field equal to responseText:

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if(xmlhttp.readyState==4)
  {
  document.myForm.time.value=xmlhttp.responseText;
  }
}

The next chapter shows how to ask a server for data!


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