Php Ajax - Multiple calls in one page - php

Question

Right now I have this code loading only 1 page (load.php?cid=1 but I want to load 5-8 (cid=1,cid=2,cid=3,cid=4,cid=5,cid=6,cid=10 ...etc )in different div(s).
how will I achieve it ?
$(document).ready(function() {
function loading_show() {
$('#loading_Paging').html("<img src='images/loading.gif'/>").fadeIn('fast');
}
function loading_hide() {
$('#loading_Paging').fadeOut 'fast');
}
function loadData(page) {
loading_show();
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "load.php?cid=1",
data: "page=" + page,
success: function(msg) {
$("#container_Paging").ajaxComplete(function(event, request, settings) {
loading_hide();
$("#container_Paging").html(msg);
});
}
});
}

Answer 1

As JimL alluded to, I would give each element on your page a common class, give each element a unique data attribute like data-cid="1", iterate through each element grabbing the cids and calling the ajax function for each.
Id go a step further by using a promise to get all of the ajax responses then load all the data when the promise has been resolved (when all the ajax requests have been completed).
Here is a working example
The HTML:
<div id="loading_Paging"></div>
<div class="myElements" data-cid="1"></div>
<div class="myElements" data-cid="2" ></div>
<div class="myElements" data-cid="3" ></div>
<div class="myElements" data-cid="4" ></div>
<div class="myElements" data-cid="5" ></div>
<div class="myElements" data-cid="6" ></div>
<div class="myElements" data-cid="7"></div>
<div class="myElements" data-cid="8" ></div>
The jQuery:
$(function() {
var page = 'some string...'
loadData(page);
function loadData(){
$('#loading_Paging').html("<img src='images/loading.gif'/>").fadeIn('fast');
// loop through each image element
// calling the ajax function for each and storing the reponses in a `promise`
var promises = $('.myElements').map(function(index, element) {
var cid = '&&cid=' + $(this).data('cid'); // get the cid attribute
return $.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: 'load.php',
data: "page=" + page +cid, //add the cid info to the post data
success: function(msg) {
}
});
});
// once all of the ajax calls have returned, te promise is resolved
// and the below function is called
$.when.apply($, promises).then(function() {
// arguments[0][0] is first result
// arguments[1][0] is second result and so on
for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
$('.myElements').eq(i).html( arguments[i][0] );
}
$('#loading_Paging').fadeOut('fast');
});
}
});
The PHP I used for my example:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['cid']) ){
// this is just a contrived example
// in your code youd use the cid to
// get whatever data you need for the current div
echo 'This is returned message '.$_POST['cid'];
}
?>