[nathanpc]

I've been trying to get the today currency from Yahoo Finance with a function, but I don't know why(maybe because I'm not familiar with Ajax), but everything that I'm getting is undefined from this code:

function get_currency(from, to) {
	var XMLHttp;  // Create the Ajax handler
	XMLHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
	var url = "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.txt?s=" + from + to + "=X" + "&f=l1&e=.txt";
	
	XMLHttp.open("GET", url, true);
	XMLHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
		if(XMLHttp.readyState == 4) {
			/* Once the server has completed its tasks display the result */
			var response = XMLHttp.responseText;
			//var parsed_reply = response.split(',');

			document.write(response);
        }
	}
	XMLHttp.send(null);
}

But I can't see anything wrong with it. Could someone help me?

[BetaWar]

It is quite possible that the code is fine. Ajax calls aren't allowed to go between multiple websites. So, if you are at a.com you can't send an ajax request to b.com (because they are different domains). It is a security measure they chose to implement in Javascript and can't be changed.

Hope that makes sense.

[nathanpc]

For sure, it makes a lot of sense for me. By the way, is there any way I can do this? Because my code will be running locally, so I can't have server-side languages...

[BetaWar]

Why couldn't you have server-side languages? You just have to install them before they will run on your box (and there are a lot of tutorials out there showing how to do it for both windows and linux based machines).

If you can't use server-side langauges you could make a page scraper in python (or Java, or something else) which would fetch the page and save it to a file for you.

Otherwise you could try using their Javascript API (assuming they have one for the finance section of their site - they may not).

The easiest way of doing things would probably be either using their API or through a server-side langauge...

[Dormilich]

even when your AJAX code itself is right, you will fail at line 13. document.write() when used after the page finished loading rewrites your page from scratch (deleting everything else before that).

didn’t it strike odd that no AJAX tutorial uses document.write()?

[nathanpc]

I can't because I'm using a framework called PhoneGap so it might be compiled into an application...

HTML, CSS, Javascript -> Compiled Application

This post has been edited by nathanpc: 01 April 2011 - 07:33 PM

[nathanpc]

Got it! This code is working perfectly, even if I try it on my server

function fetchXML() {
	var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
	var url = "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.txt?s=EURUSD=X&f=l1&e=.txt";
	
	req.open("GET", url, false)
	req.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
	req.send(null);
	
	if(req.readyState == 4 && req.status == 200) {
		fullxml = req.responseText;
        document.getElementById('txtAmount').value = fullxml;
		//=alert(fullxml);
	} else {
		alert("state: " + req.state + "\nstatus: " + req.status);
	}
}

Thanks very much guys

This post has been edited by nathanpc: 02 April 2011 - 02:18 PM