How do I send and receive vars with jquery and AJAX? - php

Question

so lets say this is my jquery portion of the code:
$.ajaxSetup ({
cache: false
});
load() functions
var loadUrl = "load.php";
$("#load_basic").click(function(){
$("#result").load(loadUrl + "?language=php&version=5");
});
});
and this is "load.php"
<?php $_GET['language'] .= "cool"; $_GET['version']+=2; ?>
How do I return the processed language and version vars back to my #result div?
Sorry if I'm doing this wrong. Pretty comfortable in php and jquery, but ajax sort of confuses me and I haven't found any tutorials that really clicked.
I know I can echo these vars out, and that will return the contents of load.php into my div.. but that seems clunky, and I doubt that's the way people actually do it..

Answer 1

JQuery
$("#load_basic").click(function(){
$.get(loadUrl + "?language=php&version=5", function(data){
var obj = eval(data)
$("#result").html(obj.language + " " + obj.version)
});
});
PHP
<?php $_GET['language'] .= "cool"; $_GET['version']+=2;
echo "{\"language\" : \"".$_GET['language']."\",\"version\" : \"".$_GET['version']."\"" ?>
not tested and not bullet-proof, but the concept is here. Return somthing in your PHP that you can read back (i choose JSON)

Answer 2

" What If I'm echoing out two or three vars in php, and I want them to be seperated and echoed out to different divs.. "
I'm ASP and not PHP but I think the prinicple is the same.
I have this is my requesting page:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#list").change(onSelectChange);
});
function onSelectChange(){
var selected = $("#list option:selected").val();
var bob = $("#list option:selected").text();
if (selected.length > 0) {
$.post("twopart.asp", { thing: selected, bob: bob }, function(data) {
var dataraw= data;
var dataarray = (dataraw).split("~~~");
var outone= dataarray["0"];
var outtwo= dataarray["1"];
var outthree= dataarray["2"];
$("#output1").html(outone);
$("#output2").html(outtwo);
$("#output3").html(outthree);
});
}
}
</script>
and this is in my processing page:
response.write bunch of stuff and ~~~
response.write bunch of stuff and ~~~
response.write more stuff
Sorry is the formatting is off- still learning how to do it.
Anyway, the "echoing page" echos its content with the three tildes stuck in there. Then I parse the return on the tildes and write different places.
Hope this is helpful.
The JSON answer by Grooveek is probably better.

Answer 3

try
$.ajax({
url:YOUR_URL,
dataType:'json',
type:'POST',
data:'&var1=value1&var2=value2',
beforeSend:function(){
//
},
success:function(response){
//complete
$('#container').html(response.result + ' ' + response.other);
}
});
in your php
$var1 = $_POST['var1'];
//your proccess
$result = array(
'result' => 'ok',
'other' => 'value'
);
echo json_encode($result);