Comments on: Yahoo API search with JavaScript alone http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/ Stoyan's blog about (x)html, ajax, bookmarklets, browsers, css, firebug, javascript, json, mdb2, mysql, pear, performance, php, phpbb, tools, yslow, yui, writing, music,... life and everything. Fri, 16 May 2008 20:37:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: All in a days work… http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-61674 Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:39:19 +0000 http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-61674 [...] Yahoo API search with JavaScript alone The cool think about Y! web services is that they provide you different options for the output format of the results they return. You can get XML, php serialized string or JSON. (No SOAP, thank you very much!). [...] […] Yahoo API search with JavaScript alone The cool think about Y! web services is that they provide you different options for the output format of the results they return. You can get XML, php serialized string or JSON. (No SOAP, thank you very much!). […]

]]> by: Stoyan http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-49226 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:52:05 +0000 http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-49226 Hi Craig, You can use your Firebug (or view generated source) to see what happens. Basically when you include the script, the result is something like: <script src="http://provider.com/service.php?param=foo&callback=fn" ... and the service responds with: fn(the_result) where: - fn is the name of your callback function - the_result is some JSON encoded data that the service returns you So at the end in your page you have: <script src="http://provider.com/service.php?param=foo&callback=fn"> fn({foo:bar,poo:whatever}) </script> Hi Craig,

You can use your Firebug (or view generated source) to see what happens.

Basically when you include the script, the result is something like:
<script src="http://provider.com/service.php?param=foo&callback=fn" …

and the service responds with:
fn(the_result)

where:
- fn is the name of your callback function
- the_result is some JSON encoded data that the service returns you

So at the end in your page you have:
<script src="http://provider.com/service.php?param=foo&callback=fn">
fn({foo:bar,poo:whatever})
</script>

]]> by: Craig http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-49097 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:34:18 +0000 http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-49097 Possibly dumb question, but how does the Yahoo service call the javascript callback function? I am trying to implement a similar service on my site but my site needs to call the callback function so I was wonder how they would implement this. Possibly dumb question, but how does the Yahoo service call the javascript callback function? I am trying to implement a similar service on my site but my site needs to call the callback function so I was wonder how they would implement this.

]]> by: Stoyan http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-19311 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:21:52 +0000 http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-19311 myf, good idea! myf, good idea!

]]> by: myf http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-19273 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:55:58 +0000 http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-19273 It works fine in FF. What about making your searches linkable and 'parametrize' them in location.search (or more possibly in .hash) and then look for them in script? It works fine in FF.
What about making your searches linkable and 'parametrize' them in location.search (or more possibly in .hash) and then look for them in script?

]]> by: Stoyan http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-18734 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:28:47 +0000 http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-18734 Hey BillyG, weird that it didn't work for you in FF, FF is what I use for development. Hey BillyG, weird that it didn't work for you in FF, FF is what I use for development.

]]> by: BillyG http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-18689 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:19:02 +0000 http://www.phpied.com/yahoo-api-search-with-javascript-alone/#comment-18689 Nice job. fyi: It worked for me in IE and Opera, but not FF. I haven't had a chance to get into the YUI yet (just now getting brushed up on Flash), but it's good to know that there are lots of possibilities. Thx. Nice job.

fyi: It worked for me in IE and Opera, but not FF.

I haven't had a chance to get into the YUI yet (just now getting brushed up on Flash), but it's good to know that there are lots of possibilities.

Thx.

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