Using Yahoo Connection api

[squishi]

The vbulletin pages load the yahoo-dom-event and connection libraries.



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I want to use those libraries to make ajax requests. I don't want to pack jquery on top of all the libraries that are already loaded.

So how would I make such a request?

Firstly, the documention for the yahoo connection manager states that "yahoo-min" is a prerequisite:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/connection/

I tried to do an ajax request like this, but nothing happens:


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So how is the connection even working in vbulletin? Why is the connection manager loaded when it depends on the yahoo library?

[kh99]

I tried this out and it works for me. I did have to remove the "+ the_hash" because it wasn't defined, but I assumed you just didn't include that code. How do you know it's not working? I'd suggest using something like FireFox with FireBug if you're not already.

[squishi]

So you don't have to load the yahoo-min.js library as a dependency?

[kh99]

I just copied your code in to the footer template, made a few changes to get it to run (liike the 'the_hash' thing and changing the url). I changed it to call misc.php?do=ajax then put a plugin on misc_start that just has:



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Then using Firebug I could see that it was making the request and getting the "foo" response. So no, I didn't have to add any js files.

[squishi]

Okay, thanks. You are always very helpful, kh99!

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I've had a look at Firebug now. It was a missing security token that was causing the problems.