> And I want to update 'Drawing' to be 'Cooking'  w/ a jQuery hover effect 
> on the client side then I need to make an Ajax request, correct?

What you probably want to do here, Nate, is simply output the PHP variable in your HTML response, like this:

  <h1 id="foo"><?php echo $searchterm ?></h1>

And then in your JavaScript code, you can manipulate the text through the DOM like this:

  $('#foo').html('Cooking');

--Dave

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David Walker
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California State University


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Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:09 PM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable

If I have in my PHP script a variable...

$searchterm = 'Drawing';

And I want to update 'Drawing' to be 'Cooking'  w/ a jQuery hover effect on the client side then I need to make an Ajax request, correct?
What I can't figure out is what that is supposed to look like... something like...

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "myfile.php",
  data: "...not sure how to write what goes here to make it 'Cooking'..."
});

Any ideas?


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