Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 06/18/05 01:12

> Is there a way to call a php function from a button press to display
> the results further down on the same page? I want to avoid setting up
> an 'output-area' in a frame or having to put my function in a separate
> script.

http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmlhttpreq.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/02/09/xml-http-request.html

Quoting...

As deployment of XML data and web services becomes more widespread, you
may occasionally find it convenient to connect an HTML presentation
directly to XML data for interim updates without reloading the page.
Thanks to the little-known XMLHttpRequest object, an increasing range of
web clients can retrieve and submit XML data directly, all in the
background. To convert retrieved XML data into renderable HTML content,
rely on the client-side Document Object Model (DOM) to read the XML
document node tree and compose HTML elements that the user sees.

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