refresh calendar without refreshing whole page

[clausowitz]

Hi All,

I have a month calendar on my homepage I want to be able to refresh it when the user clicks next month or last month with AJAX.

That way not the whole page gets refreshed. When the user clicks next month there will normally be a php POST with a variable that gives the date like for example:

index.php?date=1313013600. That should be given with the AJAX code I believe.

 

<?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>"; ?> 

 

Is there anyone who knows how to do this? This is my first AJAX experience.

Marco