javascript:ajaxpage

[dredwiser]

I have a link that targets a div tag
<a href="#" onclick="javascript:ajaxpage('mypage.php?cid=<?PHP echo $variable1; ?>', 'contentarea');" style="cursor:hand" title="<?PHP echo $variable2; ?>"><?PHP echo $variable3; ?>

The link works great and does what it is supposed to do, however i need $variable1 to go to the url bar so i can use it in a diffrent query. If I use href="#?cid=$varibale1" before the on click event, it does go to the URL but then the onclick event doesn't work. I hope this makes sense, can anyone help me out with this? Is there a way to pass the onclick event variables to the url without having to use the href="#?cid=$varibale1"?

Thanks
in advance

[Fotiman]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

It depends on what you're trying to do. It looks to me as though you're trying to make an AJAX call and avoid a page refresh. If that's the case, then no, you can't modify the URL in the address bar without causing a page load.

When you say "so I can use it in a different query", is that "different query" also an AJAX request? That is, does it operate client side without a page refresh? If so, then you could simply store the value in a JavaScript variable. As it is now, your link is not going to work for people that have JavaScript disabled.

Could you provide a little bit more detail about what you're trying to accomplish?

[dredwiser]

I have a category menu in a div tag that is populated by a PHP query, I use the link
<a href="#" onclick="javascript:ajaxpage('mypage.php?cid=<?PHP echo $variable1; ?>', 'contentarea');" style="cursor:hand" title="<?PHP echo $variable2; ?>"><?PHP echo $variable3; ?>
to display those results into another div tag with the id="contentarea" how ever I need the cid variable to be available in the main page so i can make a query to display title and meta information.