place an ajax returned responseXML element into a php variable

[davey10101]

Hey guys, complete noob here hope someone can help.

I have an ajax responseXML file that returns a series of mysql query values as elements to a span id in my php file.

What I want to do is aswell as display this returned value, also place it into a php variable so i can use it again either in the same php file or in another like so..

var xmlhttp;

function showUser(str)
{
xmlhttp=GetXmlHttpObject();
if (xmlhttp==null)
  {
  alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request");
  return;
  }
var url="responseXML.php";
url=url+"?q="+str;
url=url+"&sid="+Math.random();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=stateChanged;
xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true);
//xmlhttp.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
xmlhttp.send(null);
}

function stateChanged()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4)
  {

  xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;  
  document.getElementById("Groupid").innerHTML=
  xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("groupiD")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue; 

}

function GetXmlHttpObject()
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {
  // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  return new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
if (window.ActiveXObject)
  {
  // code for IE6, IE5
  return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
return null;
}

 

I print the result in a table but want to 'capture' it also..

 

<tr>
     <th align="left">Group ID</th>
<td><span id="Groupid"></span></td>
<?php $thisID="'<span id="Groupid"></span>'";
?>
</tr>

 

 

can anyone help?

 

Many Thanks

[Ang3l0fDeath]

I dont think you can put an AJAX - XML responce into a PHP varible.

 

You can put an AJAX - XML responce into the current page your using, which i think thats what you want anyways.

 

Is the problem your having have to do with the group_id?

Really if i had to guess your having trouble outputting the XML data into the fields you want.

 

            // News XML Section transfer to ADD news table // 

            var news_ = xml_ajax_control.getElementsByTagName("group_id");

            for (i=0; i<(news_.length); i++){

                var news_add_1 = news_.getElementsByTagName("name")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

                var news_add_2 = news_.getElementsByTagName("date")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

                var news_add_3 = news_.getElementsByTagName("type")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

 

// ignore the next line of code, thats for adding rows to a table the above is getting XML data and space it out into varibles, then you can output the varible data into something like the function below and that function handles how the data is outputted and where.  Also while outputting the data you can format the data with inline CSS and make javascript functions with inline javascript.  If you dont understand what i mean by inline CSS/javascript dont bother yourself with it, if you do understand have fun.

            news_update_addRow(news_add_1,news_add_2,news_add_3);}