[development] applet requesting cache item - please help

[David Metzler]

Yes, some folks don't know, but if you put a callback item in  
hook_menu for your module, and then have that function do direct  
prints, rather than php calls, you can get a very similar affect.   
Agreed its a matter of style, but I like this approach better than  
bootstrapping drupal directly.

This is the way that most of the AJAX calls in drupal work.

Dave
On Sep 21, 2007, at 4:29 AM, Olatunde Sowobi wrote:

> Have you considered using a http request to a menu hook or xml rpc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces at drupal.org
> [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Tomas J. Fulopp
> Sent: 21 September 2007 09:30
> To: development at drupal.org
> Subject: [development] applet requesting cache item - please help
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anybody help me please - I've reviewed tonnes of documentation for
> days but cannot find the answer.
>
> I'm developing a module that displays a Java applet and at the same  
> time
>
> prepares data for the applet. This data is stored using cache_set().
>
> The applet then requests this data using a separate call... and my
> problem is -- in the program that provides this data to the applet,  
> I do
>
> not know how can I connect to the database. I assume I need to include
> bootstrap.inc and a couple of other scripts, but all my experiments
> failed.
>
> Can you please give me some hints as to what is the proper way to to
> this, or can you point me to a page or module that has employed this
> technique.
>
> I really would not bother you if I could find it myself. I hope  
> somebody
>
> answers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomas
>
>
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