grabbing a single value / js & ajax

[snowboardr]

I know how to show a file another file using ajax, but I am unsure how to grab a single value from the script/database and then use that value in a javascript value? Should i just pull the value and place it in a div, and call the contents?

Jason

 

[BabyJeffy]

As you have suggested, placing the value into a div would do the trick. Alternatively you could just return the value (no markup at all) and then get the value from responseText.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[tsdragon]

There's is nothing magic about what is returned from a program called via "ajax" call (XMLHTTPReqest, or whatever). You can return anything your heart desires. That can be XML, a javascript object (google JSON), a simple string, or a single value. It doesn't matter at all WHAT you return, so long as you know what is being returned and know what to do with it. I have a program called via XMLHTTPRequest that returns an entire record set in JavaScript Object Notation, and I have another that returns only a 1 or a 0.

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