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Tyler Siegrist
Tyler Siegrist

Reputation: 139

How should I accomplish my rating script

My webpage has a table where you can select different items. I want to be able to let people rate these. I ran into a problem where I would need to pass a javascript variable to php, and from what I read online isn't the easiest thing. How would you suggest I do this?

The code is stored at 98.214.131.200/index.php and 98.214.131.200/ratings/ratings.php

currently I have functions in ratings.php that allow me to write or read the ratings, but I need the a string from the javascript to identify which item is being rated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 258

Answers (3)

TNC
TNC

Reputation: 5386

You can use jquery, and pass the information behind the scenes. Something like this:

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: "/your/processing/url/here.php",
  data: {rating_id: item_id, rating: 4},  // <-- set this dynamically with your item
  success: function()
  {
    // do something - success
  },
  dataType: dataType
});

Upvotes: 1

user972183
user972183

Reputation:

You could pass the rating using a POST request from a form.

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/forms.php/

Make sure you correctly sanitize your inputs to avoid SQL injections

http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/mysql-php-sql-injection.php

Upvotes: 1

Joe Majewski
Joe Majewski

Reputation: 1641

You can try passing the rating as a GET variable in the URL directly. That way you can do ./ratings.php?rating=5&item=20, and get those values in PHP as $_GET['rating'] and $_GET['item'].

Upvotes: 0

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