Making AJAX return a value.

[sonicsshadow]

Hi, I'm trying to make it so that AJAX will return a value to javascript rather than just printing out stuff. Is this possible?

 

[marshian]

Of course, with the xml-object-thingie, you get regular text, and you're not forced to do anything with it.
Something like "var something = yourxmlrequest.responseText;"

 

[VPmase]

Hi, I'm trying to make it so that AJAX will return a value to javascript rather than just printing out stuff. Is this possible?

I don't think you'd be able to do something like:

return "Test"

for AJAX. You have to echo/print what you want to return.

 

[phpasks]

I don't think you'd be able to do something like:

return "Test"

for AJAX. You have to echo/print what you want to return.

You will use this site

http://phpasks.com/ajax/prototype_ajax.html

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[sonicsshadow]

Your website's sessions are messed up, I login, go to that page, it prompts me to login again, takes me back to the index, I type in that url again and repeat.

 

[mattura]

Your AJAX needs to echo the value:

if ($_REQUEST['ajax']=="getValue") {echo $value;exit;}

and your javascript need to catch it:

//xmlHttp = new ajax object (browser specific code/try catch here)
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function() { 
 if(xmlHttp.readyState==4) {
  if (xmlHttp.status==200) {
    doSomethingWithThisValue(xmlHttp.responseText);
  }
 }
}
//send the request
  xmlHttp.open("POST", "http://www.thispage.php", true);
  xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
  xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
  xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
  xmlHttp.send("ajax=getValue");