Is it possible to use ajax to load a single php function?

Question

Example: I have written a php script like below:

<?PHP 
    function _hello(){  "Hello world!"; }
    function _bye(){  "Good Bye!"; }
    function _night(){  "Good Night!"; }
?>

<html>
    <head>!-- required files -- </head>  
    <body>
        <div id="thisDIV">
            <? echo _hello(); ?>
        </div>
        <div>
            This is another Division.
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Is it possible that I just want to reload the function _hello() in the division (id=thisDIV) by using javascript? Or ajax, Jquery ajax or whatever.. How can I make it? Thanks!

For that you have to send ajax request with some parameters and at server side you can have logic to call function according to parameter value. — Parixit
– Parixit, Commented Dec 3, 2013 at 4:33
to echo something first of all return something from the functions function _hello(){ return "Hello world!"; } — Let me see
– Let me see, Commented Dec 3, 2013 at 4:34

Taz · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-03 04:35:29Z

2

You could add a querystring to your URL and then tie that to what function you want to run:

eg: http://myurl.com/page.php?function=hello

In page.php:

$function = $_GET['function'];

if($function == "hello") {
    hello();
}

etc etc

answered Dec 3, 2013 at 4:35

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Janith Chinthana Over a year ago

@PaulLing Is that you expecting or something else ?

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