Drupal, jQuery and $.ajax() easyness.
So, I've been remiss in my blogging as of late. It's not for a lack of ideas though, so I'm going to jump right back in with something cool that I've been using a lot lately. Once again, I'm just astounded at how insanely easy jQuery makes my life. I've been reading Resig's book on the train this week and the main thing I'm learning is just how important it is to have Javascript frameworks like jQuery. There are so many nuances between major browsers - even the "modern" ones - that it would be ridiculous to try and account for them yourself when these frameworks already do such a great job.
I've written before about doing modals using the popups api and it sounds like there is some goodies in ctools. Though, sometimes you just need laser precision to accomplish one specific task to meet a clients requirement. In these cases, I'm not at all opposed to writing a quick module.
Let's say you need a really simple module that provides a link to trigger something on the back end of your site and returns a response without a page refresh. This type of thing is super common these days and jQuery makes it oh-so-simple to implement.
Read on for the code...
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