Passing a Variable into jQuery AJAX
- by Scott
I'm stuck in a rut. I hope some one can help.
Basically, I am building an AJAX mobile web app with jQuery. I am able to parse a specific XML file just fine, but I want the option to parse other XML files based on the link they were clicked on and load them on the fly into the same DIV or UL.
So:
click on Link1, loads XML1
click on Link2, loads XML2
I would like to be able to do this all client side, so no PHP (or is that a bad idea?). This the jquery code I've been using:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a.load_ajax").click(loadAjax());
function loadAjax() {
var fileID = get('?lineID=');
var dataID = "xml/" + fileID + ".xml"
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: dataID,
dataType: "xml",
success: parseXml
});
function parseXml(xml) {
$(xml).find("train").each(function() {
$("ul#ajax-output").append('<li>' + $(this).find("time").text() + '</li>');
});
}
}
});
Its just not working at all. I have been passing the variable using GET in the url. So the link in the HTML goes to /?lineID=SBD_to_Union and it should load the XML file called SBD_to_Union.xml
Making sense to anyone? I'd appreciate some help.
