[stirman]

Heya, glad to have found this community and I'm excited about writing my first widget.

I am the creator of ohdontforget.com, and thought building an ohdontforget widget would be a great widget learning project for me.

Ideally, I would like to write directly to the odf online db, from the widget.. is this even possible?

If not, I guess the second best option would be to post to the odf online form, which also may prove challenging as odf is a Rails app and I'm not sure the ugly url's with variables will play nice with my app.

Any help or direction is much appreciated. I have built out the widget up to the point where I am ready to actually submit real data.

Thanks! Glad to have found this place...

-stirman

[filipp]

I think the easiest would be to send in a post request:

function sendSomething ()
{
var req = new XMLHttpRequest ();
req.open ('post', 'http://myserverside.script', false);
req.setRequestHeader ('Content-Type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
req.send ('var1=foo&var2=bar');
alert (req.responseText);
}

Notice I'm sending 'false' as the synchro parameter which means ths script won't continue until it's got a reply from the server. This is good for testing, but not so for users. You can send any number of vairables. The server response will be sent to console.log