[Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page

Tue Jun 14 16:16:52 BST 2011

It needs to be a string you send:

send_email.sendAndLoadVars('http://www.blah.com/cj/mail.asp', 'dummy=fred&var2=something&var3=somethingelse');

You can't send an object.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 14 June 2011 16:10
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page

The event will still fire though, I think. Try it on a local test file: it should return the text contents of the file.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
Sent: 14 June 2011 16:08
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page

It's probably not failing, just not returning anything so Xerte doesn't have anything to do. If your asp script echoes back any values, they'll be captured as an object:

// send data to php script
URLString = domain + '/wbt/app/admin/selfpaced_xerte_queries.php';

sendVars = new LoadVars ();
sendVars.action = 'getData';
sendVars.sid = student.id;

// send to db
mainMenu.sendAndLoadVars (URLString, sendVars); // mainMenu is the page ID

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Then use an event interaction with onSendAndLoadVars as the event. The returned values are assigned to an object named loadVars (I think ActionScript defaults to that name, I don't know if you can change it). My script returns variables (using either echo or print) such as 'message' and 'error_code' and I access them like so:

message = mainMenu.loadVars.message;
errorCode = mainMenu.loadVars.error_code;

Pretty simple once you get the hang of it.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:40 AM
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page

xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.dummy = '<myDummy/>';
send_email.sendAndLoad(xmlData, 'http://www.blah.com/cj/mail.asp');

//works

objData = new Object();
objData.dummy = 'fred';
send_email.sendAndLoadVars('http://www.blah.com/cj/mail.asp', objData);

//fails

Is this failing because at present the asp returns nothing?
a la Authorware?

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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:56:44 +0100
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page
One way or another you will have to send text, so will have to get your data into xml or load vars, or send it as an xml payload, as text in a format of your choosing.
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 14 June 2011 14:55
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page

But I want to send data, just not in xml.

blah = new object();
blah.one = 'fred';

etc
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:51:48 +0100
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page
Send a dummy.

<myDummy/>

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 14 June 2011 14:51
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page

OK, but say I don't want to send XML.
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:48:05 +0100
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Bouncing an asp page
Yep. Then see if iconID.onSendAndLoad fires - test to a local html file or text file or xml file or...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 14 June 2011 14:47
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Subject: [Xerte] Bouncing an asp page

OK, just want to make sure I have this right:

sendAndLoad

iconID.sendAndLoad(xml, url);

Posts.
Wants the data in the form of an XML object, i.e. new XML()
Object first parameter.
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