Question

So I have the following code:

<div id="currentmotto"><?php mottoGrab($name); ?></div>

And what this does is it uses curl to screen scrape a users motto and display it on the site. What I need it to do is for that function to refresh every few seconds to see if the user has updated the motto.

I know with jquery I can use the .load(‘phpfile.php’) but the problem then is if I put that function in that file, it no longer gets the $name variable as that is from another page.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Pass name to phpfile.php via the query string:

.load(‘phpfile.php?name=THENAME’);

Then grab the name from within phpfile.php using $_GET[‘name’] and stick it in the function.

OR

Make an AJAX request passing the name and update the page using javascript.