Using the ESV Web Service at Toongabbie Anglican Church
Toongabbie Anglican Church in Australia uses the ESV Web Service to show the Scripture passages that go along with talks—without leaving their site and even without going to a separate part of their site. They use AJAX to integrate the ESV text right into the page.
For example:
Update: The Toongabbie webmaster explains how it works (including code).
August 9th, 2006 at 11:46 am
[…] Bible Tech at the ESV Bible Blog. […]
August 10th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
[…] I saw on the ESV blog that the webmasters at Toongabbie have produced a sweet ajax-powered use of the ESV web service to dynamically update the sidebar of their blog when the user selects a Bible reference. The sidebar even displays the footnotes and formatting of the Scripture text. Impressive indeed!Are there any ajax/PHP developers out there who can help us make this sort of functionality a reality for Scripturizer? […]
August 19th, 2006 at 10:07 am
[…] Simon Job, webmaster for Toongabbie Anglican Church, graciously and generously released the code for his sweet AJAX-powered show ESV text feature (see ESV blog writeup). I think Simon’s code can be nicely adapted into Scripturizer’s next release in order to revamp the current show/hide ESV text functionality. […]
January 18th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
The ESV Bible Blog has linked to a recent Bible Talk from Toongabbie Anglican Church to show how we implemented their ESV Web Service on the site. Nice of them to send us some new traffic.
January 18th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Bible Tech at the ESV Bible Blog.