Revision history for Perl module CGI::Perljax

.26 Fri Aug 26 08:07:24 2005
  original version; created by ExtUtils::ModuleMaker 0.36

.27
  removed Perljax.pm


.28 2005-09-07 10:14:54 Wed, 07 Sep 2005
  the user can now send in static parameters on the function call:
  the fnargs has been renamed to 'args'
  the user can use a parameter as :
  onclick=(['args__1234','div'],['result'])
  which will form the url  &args=1234&args=valueindiv
  can also rename parameters via:
  onclick=(['parname__'+getVal('div')],['result'])
  which will for the url:   &parname=valueindiv
  this is useful for sending to outside scripts which may not use 'args'
    as the cgi parameter name.
  renamed getElem to getVal



.32 2005-09-08 14:49:29 Thu, 08 Sep 2005
  the url will now be appended to
  so if get parameters are on the initial url, they can be used in the
  registered ajax function
  Lot's of documentation and some code restructures.
  Set CPAN version to 0.32


.37 2005-09-12 10:41:13 Mon, 12 Sep 2005
  changed perldoc some.
  Added newline/space compresson to show_common_js().
  Fixed anonymous javascript functions to have semicolons after
  definition.
  Added JSDEBUG triggered compression of user-exported javascript
  wrapper functions.  If JSBEDUG is on, the don't compress, otherwise
  compress
  Incremented CPAN version to 0.37

.43 2005-09-22 09:00:09 Thu, 22 Sep 2005
  Fixed missing space in a javascript warning message when an HTML
  element id wasn't defined.
  Fixed bug in js code to support 'textarea' fields as well as 'test'
  can now use POST variables!! no url limit
  can take POST variables, previous addition was still broken.
  updated POST methods in javascript
  incremented version string to .43 - POD touchups
  added new example showing multiple returns to a page
    (pjx_manyret.pl, in scripts/ dir)

.46 2005-09-28 14:10:08 -0700 Wed, 28 Sep 2005
  Added a new example script to show using select boxes, which change
  the value of other select boxes based on what was selected.

.47 2005-09-28 16:49:31 -0700 Wed, 28 Sep 2005
  added support for multiple select boxes after bug report from
  aztecpawn on sourceforge.net.  Now the common javascript will return
  an array of values if there was a multiple selection in a select box

.49 2005-09-29 08:36:37 -0700 Thu, 29 Sep 2005
  Fixed broken fnsplit so it wouldn't split strings.  Restructured
  javascript code for spaces and indents.  Need to give Brent my
  vimrc to prevent real tab chars from coming through.  Removed
  all tab chars and replaced with spaces.  Made lots of changes
  to pjx_combo.pl to better document and organize the html layout.

.52 2005-10-05 11:14:27 -0700 Wed, 05 Oct 2005

  Complete rewrite of POD documentation and expansion of documentation.
  Added heretofore undocumented capability of sending POST instead of
  the default GET.

.55 2005-10-07 09:33:28 -0700 Fri, 07 Oct 2005

  Can now chain functions; ajax[] array holds pjx objects, so pjx
  objects don't keep overwriting themselves.
  Cleaned up javascript custom function code.

.56 2005-10-07 10:35:33 -0700 Fri, 07 Oct 2005

  Changed debugging output for javascript to show multiple URLs is
  there are chained commands.
  Fixed a bug introduced in .55 that broke IE browsers - IE doesn't
  support onload, so switched back to onreadystatechange.

.57 2005-10-10 09:24:37 -0700 Mon, 10 Oct 2005

  Added radio to scripts directory;
  Added ability to handle radios;
  Fixed ghr so it only checks once on page load and returns a closure
    of the correct xmlhttp/activeX request object
  Changed name of 'radio.pl' to 'pjx_radio.pl'
  Version to .58

.59 2005-10-10 09:35:49 -0700 Mon, 10 Oct 2005

  Version incremented to .59.  Modified Changes and MANIFEST.  Modified
    output of pjx_radio.pl.
  fix docs in pjx_radio
  Fixed bug reported by anonymous on SF about encodeURIComponent
  encoding '='.  Problem was parens were mislocated.

.591
    fixed .59 bug that didn't fix the encodeURIComponent bug

.60 2005-10-17 12:45:31 -0700 Mon, 17 Oct 2005
  Fixed problem with javascript in make_function() where sep variable
  was getting overwritten if the processed url contained a '?'.
  Thanks to pavfed98 for identifying this - reported via rt.cpan.org.

  Added scripts/pjx_url.pl and scripts/convert_degrees.pl to scripts.
  These were needed to properly test the make_function handling of
  outside URLs (related to above bug).

  Added support to pass in additional information to build_html()
  function that gets sent directly to the cgi objects header() call.
  This allows for custom HTML header information to get sent to the
  pages generated in the CGI::Ajax system.  Thanks to Jesper Dalberg
  for suggesting this.

  Modifiedcorrected docs.

  Updated to version 0.60

.64 2005-10-27 09:45 -0700 Thu, 27 Oct 2005
  Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability identified in the <=0.60
  versions.  All users of CGI::Ajax should upgrade asap!  If a browser
  submits a request for a CGI::Ajax page that contains a function that
  doesn't exist, a status 400 Bad Request is returned.  Additionally,
  STDERR gets some output about this event with a "SECURITY" tag, just
  in case.  Thanks to krusch for catching this!

  Changed how CGI extra header parameters are passed into the CGI
  object.  Now all parameters destined to CGI->header() are added as a
  hashref to the CGI::Ajax->build_html() method, like this for example

  $pjx->build_html( $cgi, \&Show_HTML, {-charset=>'UTF-8'} );

  Any pre-0.64 CGI::Ajax script that passed in extra header
  information to the CGI object will be updating.

  Modified/corrected docs to explain the above change.

  Fixed up javascript code to make all loop variables local.  Thanks
  to Mingyi Lui.

.641 2005-10-27 12:54 -0700 Thu, 27 Oct 2005
  Pod documentations fixups.

  Changed fnsplit to better support multiple selects (thanks Mingyi
  Lui)

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.65 2005-10-27 12:55 -0700 Thu, 27 Oct 2005

  pod typo corrections

  changed javascript fnsplit to better support multiple-selects styles

  add pjx_callback.pl to demonstrate the use of a callback function.
  this required a fix in the Ajax.pm code 

  Fixed up synopsis example POD.

.651 2005-11-02 07:32 -0800 Wed, 02 Nov 2005

  added support for hidden fields.

.652 2005-11-03 13:41 -0800 

  fixed type in javascript for handling hidden fields!

  updated version and Changes to reflect .652 release

.653 | bcthomas | 2005-11-14 18:42:42

  moved some debugging code around so perl can handle the jdebug
  state.  Thanks beanz!

  Added a script (pjx_nobuild.pl) to demonstrate not using
  build_html() but to instead handle the various stages of 
  the async communication manually.

  Fixed up POD

.654 | bcthomas | 2005-11-15 10:38:55

  Added fix for redundant js if test back in.  Thanks again beanz

  Updated MANIFEST to show new no build_html() script and incremented
  version to 0.654

0.66 | bcthomas | 2005-11-29 10:22
  
  POD cleanup/corrections

  Added support for other CGI handlers/decoders (like CGI::Simple,
  CGI::Lite, CGI::Minimal, although we can't really test them since we
  are running mod_perl2 only here.

  Fixed typo in pjx_url.pl/convert_degrees.pl that was reversing the
  sign on the kelvin degree conversion (thanks Wolfgang Baron!)

  Switched home page URL to www.perljax.us

  Updated version to 0.66

0.662 | bcthomas | 2005-12-01 12:15
  
  POD cleanup/corrections

  Added a example script to show proper way to use a javascript
  function to split arguments returned from a perl-exported function.
  scripts/pjx_splitargs.pl

  Updated version to 0.662

0.67 | bcthomas | 2005-12-01 16:29

  reversed quick fix for javascript handling return values from perl
  functions added in 0.662.

  now multiple returns to a callback function are handled as
  arguments[0], arguments[1], etc. uses an eval in the javascript
  code, the way it was described in the POD, but wasn't coded.

  changed splitargs.pl: added value="" to <input>'s getting the
  return values from the function call to stop weird javascript
  warning

  Updated to 0.67

0.68 | bcthomas | 2005-12-09 11:51:25

	changed splitargs.pl

	added value="" to <input>'s getting the return values from the
	function call to stop weird javascript warning

	Fixed docs in Ajax.pm to reflect the old way of dealing with arguments
	array in javascript, after brent's fix of this code.  Updated changes,
	and MANIFEST.

	Added ability to prevent caching (though firefox doesn't seem to cache
	anyway).  The keyword is 'NO_CACHE'.

	Added to example scripts pjx_NO_CACHE_callee.pl and
	pjx_NO_CACHE_caller.pl, to demonstrate how no caching works.

	Fixed IE bug where __pjx____pjx__ doesn't return "" as the second split. 

	Took a suggestion by 'qbxk' from the perljax.us forums and changed
	the javascript code so only the function names remain the same. 
	Also rearranged code for javascript jsdebug() so it cuts down the
	amout of code.  Moved getting the script name to Perl code.
	OVerall, these changes result in less repetition in the javascript
	functions.  The URL length only includes the script name if it is
	calling itself.

	POD cleanup and additions.  Added extra level to JSDEBUG to uncompress
	ALL generated javascript.  Changed around some js varable names to be
	more understandable.

	Corrected several of the demo scripts to not use the original method
	of setting the div id to return results to...

	onkeyup=myfunc(['in1'],'out1')
	
	should be..

	onkeyup=myfunc(['in1'],['out1'])

	(thanks Jerrod)

	Modified Changes and MANIFEST.  Changed comments in Todo and README.
	Update version to 0.68

0.681 | bpederse | 2005-12-12 15:22:32

  fixed the $script regular expression to work on windows;

0.682 | bcthomas | 2006-01-09 09:41

	switched from encodeURIComponent to encodeURI

	fixed getVal to have better error checking, plus more inuitive code.
	also, use can now use name= (but getVal still looks for id= first)
	to send in the html element name. all code changes in javascript
	getVal();  This fix should alleviate mistakes where your HTML
	elements don't have an "id" defined, but do have a "name" defined.

	Rewrote docs in several areas.  Removed gratuitous acks in javascript
	code.

	Added documentation about returning multiple arguments from perl to a
	javascript function.

0.683 | bpederse | 2006-01-20 13:27:43

  Add scripts to show the use of JSON objects.
	Fixed radio and multiple-select (slight error);
	Cleaned up fnsplit.

	version to 0.683

0.684 | bpederse | 2006-01-28

	added pjx_loading.pl script.

	added function formDump() which returns an array of all form element
	names/ids in the page and sends them to the function:

	onclick=jsFunc(formDump(),['out'])

	add pjx_formDump.pl to the scripts directory documneting use.
	also changed getVal so that if you send in a function, it will
	return the result of the function, not hte function itself.

	also added $() and an alias to getVal() to follow prototype.js
	but, might be a bad idea since even in the HERE delimiters '>>'
	you have to escape the '$'..

0.69 (105) | bcthomas | 2006-02-16

	fixed typo in pjx_chained.pl
	Updated MANIFEST/Changes for release 0.684

  Added support for spans

  Added callback methods in javascript: pjx.prototype.pjxInitialized
  and pjx.prototype.pjxCompleted These methods are called before
  and after, respectively, any xmlhttp request.  It was much
  more responsive this way rather than providing a hook into each
  readyState, especially since there is not uniform support for
  the various readyStates in the common browsers.

  Changed the pjx_loading.pl script to use the above callbacks, and
  documented it.

  Switched from prototype to javascript object notation.  This is
  cosmetic, and only changes the way the code looks, not the way it
  functions.

  Added the ability to change the encoding that CGI::Ajax uses on input
  elements.  The default is encodeURIComponent, but this can be set to
  encode, etc., like so...

  $pjx->js_encode_function('escape'); 

  ...where 'escape' can be any of ('escape','encodeURI','encodeURIComponent')
  or a programmer-defined javascript function.

  altered MANIFEST to add two new scripts
    scripts/pjx_change_encoding.pl
    scripts/pjx_change_headers.pl

  Rearranged Class::Accessor initialization.


  Fixed select problem mentioned on forums, and changed pjx_formDump.pl as a
  test for that fix.

  updated to 0.69

0.691 (113) | bpederse | 2006-02-19

	fixed decode-ing
	if encoding is 'encode*' , decoding is decode*
	if encoding is escape, decoding is unescape



0.692 (116) | bpederse | 2006-03-08

	Wrapped a rogue debugging comment in an appropriate debugging check.

	changed pjx_nobuild to use 'pjxdebugrequest' instead of old
	'__pjxrequest'

	version to 0.692

0.693 (118) | bpederse | 2006-03-16

  - javascript is now inserted at beggining of header, not before
  - the eval in the javascript is gone. replaced by apply.
  - using that apply "this" in a callback will now refer to the
     javascript object. so this.url will give the url of the AJAX request.

0.694 (119) | bcthomas | 2006-03-18

	Added pjx_dynselect.pl to scripts in the dist.  This example
	demonstrates the same thing as the pjx_combo.pl example, but it uses a
	simple database to get values, instead of the calling script (as in
	pjx_combo.pl).

	fixed all the additional scripts that were missing '<form>' tags.

	fixed pjx_combo.pl

	for IE compatibility, all options must have a value, for example
	here are the wrong way and the right way for IE...

	NO:  <option> value </option>

	YES: <option value='something'> displayed text </option>

	fixed checkboxes - added a check script for them. 

	updated some indentation in examples
