html对象调用php并返回字符串

Question

I want to call a php script (with args) from HTML and to process the returned data I tried various flavours of :

<object id=test1 data="object.php" type="text/plain">

where object.php just returns a string, like

<?php print "firstText:Hello World";?>

I can't work out how to retrieve the returned string.
I was hoping to find it in something like

document.getElementById("test1").firstText
But no joy
Why am I doing this, you ask?
I'd like to get the page working interactively between the user and the server, avoiding the repainting of the browser window that comes with re-submitting with POST/GET.

Answer 1

Use AJAX. Here's an example using jQuery:

$.get('yourpage.php', function(response){
    // response contains the string returned by your PHP page.
});