I have a a bunch of li’s that are a blog but i want to show them enlarged in a colorbox. Therefore I need to know which li I clicked so I can get that ID and use that in my query to get all the date for that post.
Now I thought that the best way is to retrieve the blog id with jQuery and then use that to add to my query in the footer.
<li id="<?php the_ID;?>">blog</li>
<li id="<?php the_ID;?>">blog</li>
<li id="<?php the_ID;?>">blog</li>
<li id="<?php the_ID;?>">blog</li>
//My colorbox inline frame
<?php query_posts( 'p="the_ID_of_clicked_li' ); ?>
etc etc
I think this can be done with AJAX but is there a more simple method and give me a clean URL?
I haven’t AJAX in projects before, so I am a beginner with that.
Any thoughts would be appreciated
First, don’t use
query_posts.Second…
PHP runs on the server. Items are “clicked” on the client machine. The only way to pass that “clicked” value back to PHP is via AJAX. Within a WordPress framework that mostly means using the WordPress AJAX API.
So, there is no more simple method than AJAX to get a “clicked” value back to PHP.
However, if your original PHP Loop prints the post body to the page and you hide it by default via CSS– ie.
display:none— then your jQuery/Javascript can then selectively show/hide content and you don’t need another request to the server at all. That may count as “more simple”, if that is an option.I don’t know what “give me a clean URL” means in this context.