AJAX - The Complete Reference

PART II

Chapter 9: Site and Application Architecture with Ajax 449

return $output;

}

function addScript($ratingItems)

{

$output = <<< END_OUTPUT

<script type="text/javascript"

src="http://ajaxref.com/ch9/ajaxtcr.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript"

src="http://ajaxref.com/ch9/ratingprogressive.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

AjaxTCR.util.event.addWindowLoadEvent(function () {

END_OUTPUT;

for ($i=0;$i<count($ratingItems);$i++)

{

$output .= "var options = {outputTarget: 'ratingResult$i',

form: \$id('ratingForm$i'),ratingContainer : \$id('ratings$i')};\r\n";

$output .= "AjaxTCR.widget.ratingWidget.init(options);\r\n";

}

$output .= "});";

$output .= "</script>";

return $output;

}

?>

The specifics of the syntax aren’t what we care about so much here. That will vary

depending on the development environment you use. We are focusing on the idea of

wrappers and what they do. They are just abstractions as you can see here. We take the

custom markup and we turn it into the specific markup and script.