Simple general Ajax website

Purpose: JS script for generalized Ajax website behavior, where an Ajax request updates content of one element of the document, document title and browser history (if that one element is "main"), and also shows alerts.

HTML-code requires #main element and data-oa[-...] attributes for control elements.

<nav>
    <a href="[...]" data-oa>
        [...Menu item...]
    </a>
</nav>
<main id="main">
    <form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa>
        [...]
    </form>
    
    <div id="not-main">
    	<a href="[...]" data-oa data-oa-target="#not-main">
            [...]
        </a>
    </div>
</main>

Expected server response on traditional requests:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>%TITLE%</title>
        [...]
        <script src="[...]docready.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        [...]
        <main id="main">%CONTENT%</main>
        [...]
        <script src="[...]notify.min.js?v=[...]"></script>
        <script src="[...]odeajax.min.js?v=[...]"></script>
        [...]
    </body>
</html>

Expected server response on successful Ajax requests:

{
    "success":"true",
    "title":"%TITLE%",
    "html":"%CONTENT%",
    "alerts":[
        {
            "title":"...",
            "text":"...",
            "function":"success"
        }
    ]
}

Attribute	Description
data-oa	triggers ajax request
data-oa-target	selector of an element which will receive the HTML part of a server response. Default value: #main If a value is a semicolon-separated list ("#submain;#main"), response goes into the first element found on a page If not given, response goes to the closest [data-oa-main] element, and if such doesn't exist — to the #main
data-oa-history	if present (or if data-oa-target is #main), this URL will be added to browser history
data-oa-scroll	selector of an element that will be scrolled into view after a successful request. If present without value, data-oa-target element will be scrolled into view
data-oa-submit	attribute for A, INPUT, SELECT nodes which must submit forms "A" node outside of needed form has to have a form selector as a value (data-oa-submit="#form-id")

data-oa-append	scroll to the bottom of the data-oa-target element, append the HTML response instead of inserting
data-oa-before	function to execute before the AJAX request. If return FALSE, exit
data-oa-callback	function to execute after the AJAX request and a main callback
data-oa-confirm	text of a confirmation question
data-oa-prepend	scroll to the top of the data-oa-target element, prepend the HTML response instead of inserting
data-oa-reset-on-cancel	reset form if AJAX request didn't pass confirmation (used with data-oa-confirm)
data-oa-timeout	timeout duration of AJAX request in ms (30000ms by default)

Server response

Field	Type	Description
success	bool	if FALSE, HTML-part want be shown
html	text	HTML-part to fill in the element, specified in data-oa-target (or the closest [data-oa-main] to the element that triggered the call, or #main)
alerts	[{"title":"...", "text":"...", "function":"..."},...]	alerts, that will be shown with Vanilla Notify
title	text	will replace a document title, if data-oa-history = TRUE

Additionals

Taken without asking permit

Files	Description
docready.js	https://github.com/jfriend00/docReady
vanilla-notify	https://github.com/MLaritz/Vanilla-Notify

Examples

Link

<a href="[...]" data-oa data-oa-target="#target;#main" data-oa-history data-oa-scroll="#target">
    [...]
</a>

Form

<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa>
    [...]
</form>

Form with a custom submitter

<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa>
    [...]
    <a href="javascript:void(0)" data-oa-submit>[...]</a>
    [...]
</form>

Form with a custom submitter outside of this form

<form id="form-id" method="post" action="[...]" data-oa>
    [...]
</form>
[...]
<a href="javascript:void(0)" data-oa-submit="#form-id">[...]</a>

When a form is submitted, ask for confirmation, and reset this form, if not confirmed

<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa data-oa-confirm="Are you sure?" data-oa-reset-on-cancel>
    <input type="checkbox" [checked] data-oa-submit>
</form>

Custom timeout, ms

<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa data-oa-timeout="4000">
    [...]
</form>

Insert HTML-response into an element, other than #main

<div id="result">
	<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa data-oa-target="#result">
    	[...]
	</form>
</div>

<div data-oa-main>
	<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa>
    	[...]
	</form>
</div>

<!-- Attention: Form element will not be changed after a request -->
<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa data-oa-target="#result">
    [...]
</form>
<div id="result"></div>

<!-- Scroll #result into view -->
<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa data-oa-target="#result" data-oa-scroll>
    [...]
</form>
<div id="result"></div>

Append/prepend HTML-response to the current content of the target element

<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa data-oa-append>
    [...]
</form>

<form method="post" action="[...]" data-oa data-oa-prepend>
    [...]
</form>

PHP index – general idea

<?php

// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
// Is this an AJAX request
// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) and $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] === 'XMLHttpRequest') define('AJAX', true);

// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
// Common vars
// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
$title = '[...]';
$success = $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] !== 'POST';

// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
// Preparation for alerts
// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
session_start();
$GLOBALS['msgbox'] = [];

// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
// Content
// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
ob_start();
include 'some-content.php';
$content = ob_get_clean();

// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
// Alerts - in case of redirect, add alerts from the execution before redirect  
// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
if (isset($_SESSION['msgbox']) and !empty($_SESSION['msgbox'])) {
	$GLOBALS['msgbox'] = array_merge($_SESSION['msgbox'], $GLOBALS['msgbox']);
	unset($_SESSION['msgbox']);
}

// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
// If this is AJAX request, return JSON-structure
// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
if (defined('AJAX')) {
    header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
	echo json_encode([
		'alerts'	=>	$GLOBALS['msgbox']??null,
		'html'		=>	$content,
		'title'		=>	$title,
		'success'	=>	$success,
	]);
	exit();
}

// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
// Full document
// ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
?><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title><?=$title?></title>
	[...]
	<script src="vendor/docready.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
	<nav>
    	<a href="/home" data-oa>Home</a>
		[...]
	</nav>
	<main class="container" id="main"><?=$content?></main>

	<script src="vendor/vanilla-notify/vanilla-notify.min.js"></script>
	<script src="js/odeajax.min.js?v=[...]"></script>
	<?php if ($GLOBALS['msgbox']): ?>
	<script>
	docReady(() => ODEAJAX.showAlerts(<?=json_encode($GLOBALS['msgbox'])?>))
	</script>
	<?php endif ?>
</body>
</html>

Changes in v1.0.4

doAjax(options) changed to doAjax(url, options)
doForm(event) replaced with submit(form)
Vanilla Notify from https://github.com/MLaritz/Vanilla-Notify rewritten into notify.js which uses Bootstrap 5 toast classes and JS functionality (thus, no separate styles). Specifically, error function renamed to danger

Server JSON response requires an appropriate header:

header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');

XMLHttpRequest replaced with fetch

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