Posted by Fred Weinhaus on 10/09/32 11:53

In article <3e006$44c18192$8259c69c$26759@news2.tudelft.nl>,
"Rik" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Fred Weinhaus wrote:
> > Can anyone point me to some good online literature about communicating
> > between PHP and AJAX. Are there any libraries that would allow PHP to
> > send back request information to the calling HTML page?
>
>
> There's absolutely no difference between calls from AJAX and normal browser
> calls as far as PHP is concerned. It's just another request. No difference
> to PHP. Let PHP output the needed text/HTML/XHTML/XML, and process it with
> javascript.
>
> Anything that has to be done with the supplied information is js, so if you
> run into problems, check the code PHP produces, if that's OK, ask on
> c.l.javascript.
>
> Grtz,

Hello Rik,

I am relatively new to both PHP and AJAX so pardon my simple question,
but how do you actually return the data that PHP processes back to the
page that made the AJAX request? Can you be more specific?

Thanks

Fred

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