Question

I want to perform an jquery request to php and then I want php to return a value that is an html which is going to be attached on the original page.
The code for jquery is something like this:

$.get("phpfile.php",{'variable':variable},function(response){

$("paragraph_to_display_response").html(response);

I want php to return as response an html file which is actually an upload file form. Can I do that?Php code should look something like this:

$variable=$_GET['variable'];
//perform some checks with variable
echo ???//How can I echo an html file?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Your HTML should have a container for the Response f.E:

<div class="result">This will be replaced by AJAX</div>
<div class="click">Go</div>

Your javascript should look like this:

var variable = 'VAR';
$(".click").click(function() {
  $.get('phpfile.php', {'variable':variable}, function(data) {
    $('.result').html(data);
  });
});

You also have to trigger the request above by adding a click event to some element in your HTML.

Your PHP should simply just return the HTML you need.

phpfile.php

<?php
$variable=$_GET['variable'];
echo $variable.': <input name="file" type="file" size="50" maxlength="100000" accept="text/*">';