FWIW, I would not send HTML back to the client in an AJAX request - that style of AJAX fell out of favor years ago.
Send back JSON instead and keep the view logic client-side. Consider using a library such as knockout.js. Instead of your current (difficult to maintain) mix of PhP and client-side JavaScript, you'll end up with a static HTML page, a couple of clean JSON services (for checked-out per subject, and one for the syndetics ids of the first 4 covers), and clean HTML templates. You had earlier asked the question whether to do things client or server side - well in this example, the correct answer is to do it client-side. (Yours is a read-only application, where none of the advantages of server-side processing applies.) - Godmar On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Nate Hill <nathanielh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Something quite like that, my friend! > Cheers > N > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Walker, David <dwal...@calstate.edu> > wrote: > > > I gotcha. More information is, indeed, better. ;-) > > > > So, on the PHP side, you just need to grab the term from the query > > string, like this: > > > > $searchterm = $_GET['query']; > > > > And then in your JavaScript code, you'll send an AJAX request, like: > > > > http://www.natehill.net/vizstuff/catscrape.php?query=Cooking > > > > Is that what you're looking for? > > > > --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 3:00 PM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Nate Hill > nathanielh...@gmail.com > http://www.natehill.net >
