As always, I provided too little information. Dave, it's much more involved than that....
I'm trying to make a kind of visual browser of popular materials from one of our branches from a .csv file. In order to display book covers for a series of searches by keyword, I query the catalog, scrape out only the syndetics images, and then display 4 of them. The problem is that I've hardcoded in a search for 'Drawing', rather than dynamically pulling the correct term and putting it into the catalog query. Here's the work in process, and I believe it will only work in Chrome right now. http://www.natehill.net/vizstuff/donerightclasses.php I may have a solution, Jason's idea got me part way there. I looked all over the place for that little snippet he sent over! Thanks! On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Walker, David <dwal...@calstate.edu> wrote: > > And I want to update 'Drawing' to be 'Cooking' w/ a jQuery hover effect > > on the client side then I need to make an Ajax request, correct? > > What you probably want to do here, Nate, is simply output the PHP variable > in your HTML response, like this: > > <h1 id="foo"><?php echo $searchterm ?></h1> > > And then in your JavaScript code, you can manipulate the text through the > DOM like this: > > $('#foo').html('Cooking'); > > --Dave > > ----------------- > David Walker > Library Web Services Manager > California State University > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Nate Hill > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:09 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable > > If I have in my PHP script a variable... > > $searchterm = 'Drawing'; > > And I want to update 'Drawing' to be 'Cooking' w/ a jQuery hover effect > on the client side then I need to make an Ajax request, correct? > What I can't figure out is what that is supposed to look like... something > like... > > $.ajax({ > type: "POST", > url: "myfile.php", > data: "...not sure how to write what goes here to make it 'Cooking'..." > }); > > Any ideas? > > > -- > Nate Hill > nathanielh...@gmail.com > http://www.natehill.net > -- Nate Hill nathanielh...@gmail.com http://www.natehill.net
