Beginner: Javascript function call within URL from use of XMLHTTPRequest

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The title probably isn't very clear, but I haven't been able to find this problem (or I must be having problems figuring out which search strings to use) so I apologize if this has been addressed before, and I apologize if this is the wrong forum since I'm trying to use the XMLHTTPRequest with Javascript and PHP and I couldn't figure out which category my problem belonged to.

I am completely new to AJAX and rusty with Javascript. I created a XMLHTTPRequest object on "index.php" that calls to another page 'programs.php' that queries and outputs music information for a skating program.

In the output of 'programs.php' it contains:

index.php:

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<script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript">

<!--

 var req = false;

   try {

     req = new XMLHttpRequest();

   } catch (trymicrosoft) {

     try {

       req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");

     } catch (othermicrosoft) {

       try {

         req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

       } catch (failed) {

         req = false;

       }  

     }

   }
 
   if (!req)

     alert("Error initializing XMLHttpRequest!");
 
function sendRequest(id, program) {

  req.open('get', 'programs?id=' + id + '&x=' + program);

  req.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;

  req.send(null);

}
 
function handleResponse() {
 
  if(req.readyState == 4){

    var response = req.responseText;

    var update = new Array();
 
    if(response.indexOf('||' != -1)) {

      update = response.split('||');

      document.getElementById(update[0]).innerHTML = update[1];

    }

  }

  else

  alert("loading" + ajax.readyState);

}
 
-->

</script>
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
<a href="javascript:sendRequest('show_music', '<? echo $x ?>');">Music</a> |

<div id="info">
 
</div>
 
</body>

</html>

programs.php:

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switch($_REQUEST['id']) {
 
case 'show_music':

         echo "info||";

         $program = $_REQUEST['x'];

         query_music_song($program, $db);

         mysql_close();

         break;

}
 
<script language="JavaScript">
 
function show(click_lyrics) {

    if (click_lyrics.style.display == "none") {

        click_lyrics.style.display = "";

    } else if (click_lyrics.style.display == "") {

        click_lyrics.style.display = "none";

    }

}
 
</script>

...

<snip>

...

echo "<a href=\"#\" onclick=\"show(lyrics)\">Show Lyrics</a><br />";

echo "<span id=\"lyrics\" style=\"display:none\"><pre>" . $m->lyrics . "</pre></span>";

This is in addition to the use of php to query and output code that I took out.

My problem is that the function call to show(click_lyri cs) does not seem to work, which I suppose is to be expected. So my question is whether there is a way to make this work in hiding the lyrics or show the lyrics within the requested data? Or perhaps a better way to code this? Let me know if more code/explanation is needed for clarity.

Thanks much in advance.

Oct 24 '06 #1

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To run JavaScript returned from an Ajax request, you either have to eval it, or better still, add the script to the head of the main page:

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 var script = document.createElement("script");

script.appendChild(document.createTextNode(code)); //code is a line of code

var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];

head.appendChild(script);

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