[SOLVED] Sessions with AJAX

[gevo12321]

I was wondering if it is possible to use sessions with ajax. I use AJAX to open tabs on the page for searching. If a tab is clicked, it will search in one database, if the other is clicked it will search in another and I use AJAX because the whole page doesn't have to reload every time the tab is clicked. I was wondering if I could use sessions to remember which tab was clicked. so when another page loads, it remembers which was clicked. So I was wondering how I would implement this. I just don't see what I would do. Thank you.

[Brian W]

the page that AJAX uses to load needs to set the session to some unique identifier for that tab which you can use on the other pages.

[rhodesa]

ajax is just a normal client->server page request, so sessions are available just like if they loaded another page from your site. if you want to remember which tab is selected, just pass the tab name in the ajax request, store it in the session, then load it from the session when the new page is loaded. does that make sense?

[gevans]

When you get your data from the database assign a session $_SESSION['tab'] = 'whichevertab'

 

Then look for that session on the next page

 

EDIT: what rhodesa said