Question

I need help, This is what am actually trying to do. I have two files. “index.php” and “realtime.php” the index.php displays news from a particular country base on the url parameter “country_code”, and the realtime.php updates the news list every 2 seconds. what I want is for realtime.php to get the current url parameter of index.php so that it can only update news from that particular country base on the url parameter. I really need this help. Thank you again.
script for index.php

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
    $.arte({'ajax_url': '../realtime.php?lastid='+$('.postitem:first').attr('id'), 'on_success': update_field, 'time': 1000}).start();
    function update_field(data)
    {
        $("#realtimeupdate").html(data);
    }
});

</script>

and script for realtime.php

<?php

include"customDB.php";
$lastid = $_REQUEST['lastid'];
$query = 'SELECT count(*) as newpost FROM wp_posts WHERE country_code = "XXXXX" AND   post_id > "'.$lastid.'"';
$result = mysql_query($query);
$rec = mysql_fetch_object($result);
if($rec->newpost){ ?>
<a href="" id="newpostlink">(<?php echo $rec->newpost; ?>) new posts</a>
<script type="text/javascript">document.title = '(<?php echo $rec->newpost; ?>) new posts'</script>
<?php } ?>

I want the value of country_code =”XXXXXX” in raltime.php to be the url parameter value of index.php
Thanks

Answer 1

Accessing query string in Javascript

First, you’ll need to get the value of “country_code” that has been passed as a query string parameter. You can use Javascript like this to do so:

var urlParams = {};
(function () {
    var e,
        a = /\+/g,  // Regex for replacing addition symbol with a space
        r = /([^&=]+)=?([^&]*)/g,
        d = function (s) { return decodeURIComponent(s.replace(a, " ")); },
        q = window.location.search.substring(1);

    while (e = r.exec(q))
       urlParams[d(e[1])] = d(e[2]);
})();

(taken from this SO question)

Now, urlParams will look something like:

urlParams = {
    country_code: 'US'
}

So, you can change your AJAX call to add this parameter:

$.arte({'ajax_url': '../realtime.php?country_code='+urlParams.country_code+'lastid='+$('.postitem:first').attr('id'), 'on_success': update_field, 'time': 1000}).start();

And now it will be available via PHP under $_GET['country_code'].

Using the variable in PHP

Now you can access the variable and use it in your query.

$country_code = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['country_code']);
$query = 'SELECT count(*) as newpost FROM wp_posts WHERE country_code = "' . $country_code . '" AND   post_id > "'.$lastid.'"';

Note that I’ve written this code to conform to your existing coding style. It’s not very clean, so you might consider cleaning it up by using helpers like $.param() and MySQLi prepared statements.