Brian Dobberteen

Wow! It’s been waaaaay too long since my last installment – been busy with latest programming contract, not that you care.
Since beating the proverbial dead horse is my specialty, this brief post is going to cover making a call to the Yahoo! Maps API via an ASP.NET web service (.asmx) which we then call from [...]

Previously, I mentioned that I wasn’t sure if using an XmlReader was the best way to fetch the City and State values from the XML response from the Yahoo Maps API:

Using reader As XmlReader = XmlReader.Create(MAP_URL & MAP_APP_ID & "&zip=" & zip)
While reader.Read
If reader.Name = "City" And reader.IsStartElement Then
[...]

I will start by saying that my experience with PHP is somewhat limited, so this is more of an exercise for my benefit. I’d like to take ASP.NET out of the formula for a bit here, and instead resort to a simple PHP page to answer AJAX requests from jQuery.
Earlier, we used ASP.NET PageMethods, but [...]

This is a quick follow up to the previous post about calling ASP.NET PageMethods in which we used a ScriptManager object with EnablePageMethods set to True.
This time, we won’t even be including a ScriptManager in our page, and instead will use jQuery. Without further ado, here’s what the javascript looks like:
$(function() {
$("#ZipCodeTextBox").bind(‘change’, function(event) [...]