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<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1) Create some html content that can be accessed by jquery
-------------------------------------------------------------------------->
<h2> Client example </h2>
<h3>Output: </h3>
<div id="output">this element will be accessed by jquery and this text replaced</div>
<script id="source" language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
$(function ()
{
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
// 2) Send a http request with AJAX http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
$.ajax({
url: 'api.php', //the script to call to get data
data: "", //you can insert url argumnets here to pass to api.php
//for example "id=5&parent=6"
dataType: 'json', //data format
success: function(data) //on recieve of reply
{
var id = data[0]; //get id
var vname = data[1]; //get name
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
// 3) Update html content
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
$('#output').html("<b>id: </b>"+id+"<b> name: </b>"+vname); //Set output element html
//recommend reading up on jquery selectors they are awesome
// http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/
}
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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