I have written some JavaScript code that will read from the Google Maps API and get a list of JSON objects. It will then convert each JSON object into an XML object. A co-worker needs this list converted to XML and then appended to an existing XML file and then save it to our server. So I wrote some PHP code to do that.
Now this is my first time working with PHP but I managed to write that PHP code easily enough. The next thing I am trying to do is write some javascript to run the PHP file and also send the XML object over to the PHP where it can append and save the XML. I figured I would use jQuery's $.ajax
function. I started using a simple example trying to echo a string into some <pre>
tags. So here is my code:
Javascript (Lies within index.php)
<script>
var scriptString = 'THIS IS MY STRING';
$('#clickMe').click(function(){
$.ajax(
{
method:'get',
url:'index.php',
data:
{
'myString': scriptString
}
});
});
</script>
PHP & HTML (also lies within index.php)
<button type="button" id="clickMe">CLICK ME TO RUN PHP</button>
<pre>
<?php
echo $_GET['myString'];
?>
</pre>