How to access a php script from javascript?

[mondi]

Hi to all!
I am completely new to javascript so sorry for my ignorance here.
My problem is like this: I have a php code which is supposed to connect to the database (Sql Server) which returns some values from database. I need to call this php code from javascript and also need to process the values that php code returns.

Hope I was undestandable in my terminology

Thanks in advance for any help

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[feherke]

Hi

You need AJAX. See more in forum1600.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[vacunita]

Either that, or have the PHP run, and output the data into a json array, which your Js could then read and work off of.

Of course if you want it to be on the fly, Ajax is the way to go.

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[mondi]

I am not sure if I can use Ajax, however I will have a look at it. Thanks

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[vacunita]

If you can't use Ajax, then you can't call a PHP script from JS.

You can run the PHP script first and then have JS work off of the produced data, but not the other way around, simply because JS and PHP exist in different environments, and cannot directly interact.


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[mondi]

Hi, haven't been at work these days. I tried to use jquery for this case and it seems like it is working, i.e. I am using $.ajax to call a php script.
But except this, I need to pass an array of values (which might be some ID-s) as parameter to the php script and then send back to the javascript (from the php script) another array (which are these ID-s, but filtered by a query in MS SQL).

Sorry if I am in the wrong forum and thanks a lot for any help, because I am completely new in php, javascript, ajax or jquery and I am really feeling lost here.

Thanks

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