Rails spinoffs - Oct 2005 - InPlaceEditor

Hi all,
I was wondering if I could get some help with using Ajax.InPlaceEditor. 
I want to use loadTextURL to get the text, as it says on the bottom of 
the documents ''How to edit server side formatted text (formatted with 
eg. textile)''. My question is how do I know which inplaceedit
I''ve
clicked? So that I know which id I need to get the text from in the 
mysql ''the id of the element for example gets picked up by my function 
that I place in loadTextURL''.
Then I guess all I have to do is return the text and Ajax.InPlaceEditor 
will put it in the textfield?

thank

Are you using Rails or some other technology? In Rails you would just
have the id as part of your url, like this:
new Ajax.InPlaceEditor(''element-id'',
''/controller/set_text/123'', {
loadTextURL: ''/controller/get_text/123'' });

If you want it to be part of the query parameters then you need to
specify the callback option like this:
new Ajax.InPlaceEditor(''element-id'',
''/controller/set_text'', {
callback: function(form, value) { ''id=123&value='' + value
},
loadTextURL: ''/controller/get_text?id=123'' });

(''123'' is used as the id in the above examples.)

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jon


On 10/8/05, Danijel K. <dani@kafic.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was wondering if I could get some help with using Ajax.InPlaceEditor.
> I want to use loadTextURL to get the text, as it says on the bottom of
> the documents ''How to edit server side formatted text (formatted
with
> eg. textile)''. My question is how do I know which inplaceedit
I''ve
> clicked? So that I know which id I need to get the text from in the
> mysql ''the id of the element for example gets picked up by my
function
> that I place in loadTextURL''.
> Then I guess all I have to do is return the text and Ajax.InPlaceEditor
> will put it in the textfield?
>
> thank
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That was exactly what I needed, I blame myself for not thinging like 
that since I allready add the valueid when it gets saved, I should have 
figured out that it was the same way with the reading from it. thanks Jon!