Showing Results and Details on One Page Using AJAX For Cartweaver ![[Registration never required for free content]](/images/free.gif)
By: Tom Muck on Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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Dreamweaver's Master/Detail page set is a handy set of behaviors to use for a drill-down functionality -- display a list of records, and click on a link in the list to view the full record. Cartweaver does not use the Dreamweaver behaviors for the Master/Detail page set, but does include the same concept with its results and details page. The article Creating a Master/Detail Pageset on One Page Using AJAX showed how to put both pages together using AJAX using the built-in Dreamweaver server behaviors. In that tutorial, I showed how to create one master/detail page that uses some very simple JavaScript to load the details section of the page dynamically using AJAX. This creates a much faster page, in that it only loads the dynamic details portion when needed, rather than the entire page.
This article will use the same JavaScript functionality to create the functionality for a Cartweaver site. The article will apply equally to the ColdFusion, PHP, and ASP versions of Cartweaver and assumes that you own one of those products. To use this functionality you have to set your details display setting in the admin to either "Simple" or "Tables". The "Advanced" option uses JavaScript to set menus, which would require more modifications.
