Re: Could someone help me on CGI-PERL-JAVASCRIPT problem ?

Ramesh,

Take a look at http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/. This is =

a javascript only solution to your question. This saves calls to the=20
server and is very fast.

Larry



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> Hi,
>
> I have following task:
> 1. An html page with a table of data displayed according to default=20
> sorting based on a column data.
> 2. I should have a collection of html form buttons, one for each above =

> table columns, displayed on the top of this page. The user would click =
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> any of these column buttons.=20
> 3. Once any of the buttons is clicked, this same html page should be=20
> displayed back but with results sorted as per the chosen column =
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> the button.
>
> I have following questions in this regard:
> Q1.  I want to know how do I catch the button click response from the =
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> and then call a JavaScript handler using JavaScript.pm module =
functions?
> Q2. If we use JavaScript.pm module within .cgi files, how do we =
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> the Perl data structures into JavaScript?
> Q3. Do we still need to install WDDX module or not?
>
> Important. All the above would happen from an initial cgi script and =
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> button click response also should execute from the same cgi script if=20
> possible. This is because, I have lot of Perl Hash data structures to=20
> store the table data displayed on the html page. I need to use the =
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> data structures for sorting and displaying this data.
>
> If anyone has answers to these questions, please reply immediately.
> Thanks in advance .
>
> Regards
> Ramesh
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