In the meantime a brand new side project idea is born.. All stats looking at the bleeding edge of the CMS/CMR/Framework panorama that I’ve encountered in the last month. None of them is really well suite for rapid application developement in  L(W)AMP environments. What is missing actually is a real visual IDE that fits into your browsers, and helps you deploy a consisten, secure, fast paced application starting from a simple set of tables/relations.

Something like the old visual basic stuff, but integrated with all the latest AJAX widgets and user experience. why should people still develop every single template/form/interface instead of simply concentrate in business logic?

so stay tuned, first lines of code are ready, as usual with prototype & usual suspects in the frontline.
I will publish one module/element/schema/idea per week, any help is greatly appreciated!!

window.onload=function(){
Event.observe(document.body, ‘click’, function(event) {
var element = Event.element(event);
if (’A’ == element.tagName){
if ($(element.target) != undefined){
new Ajax.Updater(element.target,element.href,
{method:”post”,evalscripts:true})
Event.stop(event);
}

}
});
formz=document.getElementsByTagName(”form”);
for (i=0;i<formz.length;i++){
if ( formz[i].target!=undefined && formz[i].id!= “”){
el=formz[i].id
tar=formz[i].target
Event.observe(formz[i].id, ’submit’, function(event) {
$(el).request({
onSuccess: function(t) {
$(tar).update(t.responseText);
}
})

});
}
}
}

After messing up with some application requiring a huge number of ajax calls, I ended up thinking about this little piece of code:

window.onload=function(){
Event.observe(document.body, 'click', function(event) {
    var element = Event.element(event);
    if ('A' == element.tagName){
        if ($(element.target) != undefined){
            new Ajax.Updater(element.target,element.href,
            {method:"post",evalscripts:true})
            Event.stop(event);
            }

        }
    });
}

basically, this 10-line worth trick sets an event listener on every click. If you click on a ‘a’ with a target attribute set up, it starts an Ajax.Updater call on it.
you can of course add GET parameters and feed .php, and of course javascript code is parsed as well..
the complete seed [just a .htm and .php example file added] can be downloaded here