Question

Let’s say that I have two links.

<li><a href="#" id="VALUE1" class="charName">Name 1</a></li>

<li><a href="#" id="VALUE2" class="charName">Name 2</a></li>

And when I click one of these links jQuery passes the ID of the link I clicked to a PHP file without reloading the page.

Due to the fact that the id’s will not be constants I assume this.id will need to be used in the jQuery.

Then in the PHP file the id is put into a variable then sent to the database. Such as,

$var = JQUERY?

insert db...

I am just stumped on how to create the jQuery needed to send the ID to the PHP file. And then to retrieve that non-constant ID using PHP.

How might I got about doing this?

Answer 1

you have to implement some ajax to achieve the same , lets have a click handler for a href first.

And then make a ajax call

$('.charName').click(function() {
   var idval = this.id ;

   $.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: "some.php",
   data: "id=idval  &location=Boston",
   success: function(msg){
     alert(msg ); // this is the response
   }
 });
 return false// this is diable ahref post back to the same page itself
});