Question

I need help cause I am a total newb on this.

I set up a session in my header:

session_start(); 
$_SESSION['catname'] = $catname;

Which I retrieve in my single pages:

$catname = $_SESSION['catname']; 
session_destroy();

I have several divs, each with data type that can be used by jquery:

<div class="mydiv1" data-category="cat1"></div>

<div class="mydiv2" data-category="cat2></div>

Is it possible to use jquery on click function to get “cat1” and “cat2” from data-category and use this to supply $catname for my session variable?

Thank you!

Answer 1

I think you need to use ajax for this.

Maybe something like:

$("#button").click(function(){
var catname = $("#mydiv1").attr("data-category");
$.ajax({
    type : "POST",
    url : "file.php",
    data : "&catname="+catname,
    success : function(data){
         alert("Success");
    }
});
});

You will do the storing of session variable in the “file.php” by getting the catname.
Seems you have similar problem here: save-value-in-php-session-variable