Something quite like that, my friend!
Cheers
N

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Walker, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I gotcha.  More information is, indeed, better. ;-)
>
> So, on the PHP side, you just need to grab the term from the  query
> string, like this:
>
>  $searchterm = $_GET['query'];
>
> And then in your JavaScript code, you'll send an AJAX request, like:
>
>  http://www.natehill.net/vizstuff/catscrape.php?query=Cooking
>
> Is that what you're looking for?
>
> --Dave
>
> -----------------
> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Nate Hill
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:00 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable
>
> As always, I provided too little information.  Dave, it's much more
> involved than that....
>
> I'm trying to make a kind of visual browser of popular materials from one
> of our branches from a .csv file.
>
> In order to display book covers for a series of searches by keyword, I
> query the catalog, scrape out only the syndetics images, and then display 4
> of them.  The problem is that I've hardcoded in a search for 'Drawing',
> rather than dynamically pulling the correct term and putting it into the
> catalog query.
>
> Here's the work in process, and I believe it will only work in Chrome
> right now.
> http://www.natehill.net/vizstuff/donerightclasses.php
>
> I may have a solution, Jason's idea got me part way there.  I looked all
> over the place for that little snippet he sent over!
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Walker, David <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > > 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
> >
> > -----------------
> > David Walker
> > Library Web Services Manager
> > California State University
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> > Of Nate Hill
> > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:09 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nate Hill
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> > http://www.natehill.net
> >
>
>
>
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