refresh calendar without refreshing whole page

[clausowitz]

I have a calendar displayed in my index.php. When I click next month the whole page gets refreshed.

Is there a way that the calendar refreshes without doing the whole page?

 

 <?php if (isset($_SESSION['idx'])) {
    echo '<div class="container" style="font-size:15px; margin-bottom:5px;">
	<table width="97%" border="0">
          <tr>
            <td width="78%" ><div style="font-size:15px;"><strong>MAAC Calendar</strong></div></td>
            <td width="11%"><a href="calen.php"><img src="images/calendar.png" alt="Add or Edit events in the calendar" border="0" align="left" width="30" height="30" /></a></td></tr></table><p>';
		include_once "mijnkalender.php";
       echo ' </p>
      </div><br />';}
      ?>

 

The problem start I guess where the calendar sends variables when the page goes to the next month.

<?php if(!isset($_REQUEST['date'])){ 
   $date = mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'),  date('d'),  date('Y')); 
} else { 
   $date = $_REQUEST['date']; 
} 

// Build Previous and Next Links 
$previous_link = "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?date="; 
if($month == 1){ 
   $previous_link .= mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, $day, ($year -1)); 
} else { 
   $previous_link .= mktime(0, 0, 0, ($month -1), $day, $year); 
} 
$previous_link .= "\"><< Prev</a>"; 

$next_link = "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?date="; 
if($month == 12){ 
   $next_link .= mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, $day, ($year + 1)); 
} else { 
   $next_link .= mktime(0, 0, 0, ($month +1), $day, $year); 
} 
$next_link .= "\">Next >></a>"; ?> 

[westis4me]

I by no means know what I am talking about but, wouldn't an iframe work?

[cssfreakie]

You might want to have a look in something called AJAX

An iframe could work too but ajax is much more cleaner.

[westis4me]

I wonder if you meant that to be a pun? AJAX Cleaner? Either way it made me laugh.

 

[cssfreakie]

ah the word cleaner caused a mind trick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29

 

have a look there, and once you read it try to  expiriment with jquery ajax.

we even have a forum for ajax here.

 

[teynon]

I agree ajax would be better. iframes have their own special uses.

 

I like the fact that ajax is "more cleaner". Not just cleaner.