Using Scriptaculous as Framework of Ajax

Script.aculo.us is a popular website known for the scripts and libraries that you can apply to your website. Every budding developer who might find coding a little bit difficult can use the website and access some scripts and tools for easy implementation. Aside from hosting large quantities of codes, Script.aculo.us also has a framework that will work great for Ajax. If you wanted to have a great Ajax website without any effort, try this framework. Script.aculo.us has a very easy to understand cheat sheet that you can use anytime. Although it’s a little bit something more for the beginner, Script.aculo.us could be your framework if you wanted to have a good looking website. In the download page, you’ll have the latest version of framework. You can download either the .zip, tar.gz or the tar.bz2 version of the software since all of them contain the same framework version. Once you download the framework, upload the files in your web-server. Be sure to watch out and remember where you place these files as you have to link so many Ajax based commands to this folder. Anywhere would do but it’s highly recommended to place it the highest tree so that the code could be easily accessed and written as commands. After you have uploaded the files in your web server, it’s time to activate the website so that it could acknowledge commands in Ajax form. You can easily do that by inserting this code in the header of your webpage. You’ll find this code in the Script.aculo.us web page but here it is: <script src="ajax/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="ajax/scriptaculous.js" type="text/javascript"></script> You might notice that the tag also indicate that a JavaScript will be used in your program. This is because Ajax primarily uses JavaScript throughout the program so if you are already familiar with JavaScript you’ll have no problem integrating Ajax to your website. But if you are not familiar with the JavaScript, that’s not a problem at all. When you have added the tag “ajax/, be sure to change the address to your Script.aculo.us folder. If you don’t do that, forget about your Ajax like webpage. After these stage comes the trickier part. This is where you command your webpage to implement Ajax commands in some parts of your webpage. Script.aculo.us has a great cheat sheet that you can use. It’s easy to understand and you’ll be “coding”, which is primarily editing for customization, in time at all. Tagging your website for Ajax is really easy and Script.aculo.us provides the best free codes online. Although I think you might not get it the first time (I didn’t), constant practice ensures that you’ll be able to get what you desire from Ajax. Most of the time, there are codes that are really tricky so you have to start from the very beginning which is commanding the website to acknowledge Ajax based commands. From there, it’s going to be rough but as long as you practice and experiment, your Ajax site will be activated in no time.