AJAX status update to application just before a external sit

Rails
1

Hi,

I’m incorporating a Palpal donate button on my site, however I’d like to
be
able to send an update (AJAX) to my application to alert it to the fact
that
the user has clicked on donate, and hence would be in the process of
being
taken to the PayPal site.

Is there a way to wrap an AJAX update back to my application around an
external site’s link that I embed.

Tks
Greg

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On Feb 13, 3:06 am, “Greg H.” [email protected]
wrote:

Is there a way to wrap an AJAX update back to my application around an
external site’s link that I embed.

Take a look at how any popular web analytics package handles the
tracking of outclicks. For example:

http://s10.sitemeter.com/js/counter.asp     (Note: Copyright)

Basically, you add an onclick event handler to every link in the
document by iterating over document.links.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

3

thanks Sheldon - you don’t happen to know whether prototype or
scriptaculus
have this type of feature inbuilt somewhere?
Greg

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On Feb 13, 11:40 am, “Greg H.” [email protected]
wrote:

thanks Sheldon - you don’t happen to know whether prototype or scriptaculus
have this type of feature inbuilt somewhere?

Well they both support iterating over document elements (although
iterating over document.links is easy enough), and from there I’d
imagine it’s just the usual remote post handling.

Ciao,
Sheldon.