I am having issue with the following: I can't seem to keep the link I am selecting in each repeated item. The word "this" is getting lost. the Var event_id works for each element, but the var $something is undefined? Why is that, Ideally I wanted to do a switch statement but same issue, can't seem to get it to know what link I click and the elements around it to do the action.

Updated Full Function:

function rsvp (selector,function_url) {
$(selector).livequery('click',function(){

   var $select = $(selector).attr('rel');
   var $event_id= $(this).parents('ul.event-options').attr('rel');
    	if ($select == "attending") {
    	$(this).closest('span.rsvp-status').html("I'm Attending &ndash; <a href='javascript:;' class='remove' rel='remove'>Remove</a>");
    	var $something = $(this).parents('ul.event-options').attr('rel');
    	alert($something);
    	}
    	if ($select == "remove") {
    	$(this).closest('span.rsvp-status').html("Not Attending &ndash; <a href='javascript:;' class='rsvp' rel='attending'>RSVP?</a>");
    	}
    	if ($select == "interested") {
    	$(this).closest('li').addClass('interested');
    	$(this).closest('li').removeClass('not-interested');
    	$(this).closest('li').html("You're Interested");
    	}

   $.ajax({
    	type: "POST",
    	url: "/events/set_member/"+function_url,
    	data: "event_id="+$event_id,
    	beforeSend:  function() {
    	$("<span class='notice'>Updating...</span>").prependTo('body');
    			},
    	complete: function()
    			{
    			$('span.notice').fadeOut(500);

    			}
    	});



   });
}
rsvp ('a.rsvp','rsvp');
rsvp ('a.interests','interested');
rsvp ('a.remove','remove');

HTML

<ul class="event-options" rel="<?=$event['event_id']?>">
    					<?php if($event['rsvp_total'] > 0) { ?>
    					<!-- Show Only When Count is Greater than 0 -->
    					<li class="group"><span class="total"><?= $event['rsvp_total']?></span>Interested </li>
    					<?php } ?>

    					<li class="rsvp"><span class="rsvp-status"> Not Attending &ndash; <a href="javascript:;" class="rsvp" rel="attending">RSVP?</a></span></li>
    					<li class="not-interested"> <a href="javascript:;" class="interests" rel="interested"> Interested? </a> </li>
    					<li class="place"><span><a href="<?=$place_path.$event['place_id']?>"><?=$event['place_name']?></a></span></li>
    					<li class="share" rel="<?=$event['event_name']?>">
    					<a class="sharethis"></a>

    					</li>

    				</ul>