I am not familiar with jquery or ajax, but i do know it is whats needed to perform the action I want. I have created a wordpress plugin that updates a database table based on the users click. Right now it refreshes the page to return the results, but I want to stop the page refresh and return data
via ajax I believe. If anyone is interested in helping me figure this out I would be very appreciative or even willing to pay.
Thanks!
Here is the plugin code:
function BoardLikeItGetDelim($postid)
{
global $wp_rewrite;
if($wp_rewrite->using_permalinks())
{
if(isset($_GET['mbpost']))
return "?mbpost=".$postid."&";
return "?";
}
else
{
if(isset($_GET['mbpost']))
return "&mbpost=".$postid."&";
return "&";
}
}
function AddBoardLikeItButton($postid)
{
global $user_ID;
if(isset($_GET['board-like-it-action']) && $_GET['board-like-it-action'] == "like" && $_GET['bpid'] == $postid)
BoardLikeItLike($user_ID, $_GET['bpid']);
if(isset($_GET['board-like-it-action']) && $_GET['board-like-it-action'] == "unlike" && $_GET['bpid'] == $postid)
BoardLikeItUnLike($user_ID, $_GET['bpid']);
$num_likes = BoardLikeItGetNumLikes($postid);
if(!BoardLikeItIsLiked($user_ID, $postid))
echo "<HREF LINK='".BoardLikeItGetDelim($postid)."board-like-it-action=like&bpid=".$postid."#mngl-board-post-message-".$postid."'>Like</a> ".$num_likes."" . "<br/>";
else
echo "<HREF LINK ='".BoardLikeItGetDelim($postid)."board-like-it-action=unlike&bpid=".$postid."#mngl-board-post-message-".$postid."'>Un-Like</a> " . "<br/><span style='display: inline-block; padding: 0px; bottom: -5px; position: relative; border: 0px;'><IMAGE='". get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/wp-content/plugins/board-like-it/top-up.png' /></span><div style='-moz-border-radius: 4px;
-khtml-border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #000;
background-color: #B8C9DB;
width: 90%;
margin: 0px;
display: block;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 4px;
padding-left: 6px;'>" . "<IMAGE='". get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/wp-content/plugins/board-like-it/thumb_up.png'/> " .BoardLikeItShowLikers($postid). "like this." . "</div>";
}
function BoardLikeItShowLikers($postid)
{
global $wpdb;
$result = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT `likers` FROM ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." WHERE `mngl_id` = {$postid}"));
$results = explode(',', $result);
$names = "";
if($results[0] != "")
foreach($results as $r)
{
$userinfo = get_usermeta($r, 'user_login');
$names .= $userinfo.", ";
}
return $names;
}
function BoardLikeItGetNumLikes($postid)
{
global $wpdb;
$result = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT `likers` FROM ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." WHERE `mngl_id` = {$postid}"));
$results = explode(',', $result);
if($results[0] != '')
return count($results)."<br/><span style='display: inline-block; padding: 0px; bottom: -5px; position: relative; border: 0px;'><IMAGE='". get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/wp-content/plugins/board-like-it/top-up.png' /></span><div style='-moz-border-radius: 4px;
-khtml-border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #000;
background-color: #B8C9DB;
width: 90%;
margin: 0px;
display: inline-block;
border: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 1px;
padding-left: 6px;'>" . "<IMAGE='". get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/wp-content/plugins/board-like-it/thumb_up.png'/> " .BoardLikeItShowLikers($postid). "likes this." . "</div>";
else
return "";
}
function BoardLikeItLike($user_ID, $postid)
{
global $wpdb;
$likers = array();
$likersnew = array();
$result = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT `likers` FROM ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." WHERE `mngl_id` = {$postid}"));
$results = explode(',',$result);
if($results[0] != "")
{
if(!in_array($user_ID, $results))
$results[] = $user_ID;
$likers = implode(',',$results);
$wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare("UPDATE ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." SET `likers` = '{$likers}' WHERE `mngl_id` = {$postid}"));
}
else
{
$likersnew[] = $user_ID;
$likersnew = implode(',',$likersnew);
$wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare("INSERT INTO ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." (`mngl_id`, `likers`) VALUES ('{$postid}', '{$likersnew}')"));
}
}
function BoardLikeItUnLike($user_ID, $postid)
{
global $wpdb;
$likers = array();
$result = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT `likers` FROM ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." WHERE `mngl_id` = {$postid}"));
$results = explode(',', $result);
if(in_array($user_ID, $results))
{
$results = BoardLikeItRemoveFromArray($results, $user_ID);
if(!empty($results))
{
$likers = implode(',', $results);
$wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare("UPDATE ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." SET `likers` = '{$likers}' WHERE `mngl_id` = {$postid}"));
}
else
{
$wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare("DELETE FROM ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." WHERE `mngl_id` = {$postid}"));
}
}
}
function BoardLikeItIsLiked($user_ID, $postid)
{
global $wpdb;
$result = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT `likers` FROM ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()." WHERE `mngl_id` = {$postid}"));
$results = explode(',', $result);
if(in_array($user_ID, $results))
return true;
else
return false;
}
function BoardLikeItActivate()
{
global $wpdb;
$charset_collate = '';
if($wpdb->has_cap('collation'))
{
if(!empty($wpdb->charset))
$charset_collate = "DEFAULT CHARACTER SET $wpdb->charset";
if(!empty($wpdb->collate))
$charset_collate .= " COLLATE $wpdb->collate";
}
$table_sql = "CREATE TABLE ".BoardLikeItGetDBName()."(
`mngl_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`likers` longtext NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`mngl_id`))
{$charset_collate};";
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php');
dbDelta($table_sql);
}
function BoardLikeItGetDBName()
{
global $wpdb;
return $wpdb->prefix."board_like_it";
}
function BoardLikeItRemoveFromArray($arr, $key)
{
$new = array();
foreach($arr as $j => $i)
{
if($i != $key)
$new[] = $i;
}
return $new;
}
