I have a few ajax calls in my app they all go to the same file server side. i want to know if I can use a variable... I want to have a way to distinguish the call from other calls and of course, use the variable to select which script in the file to send back to the client. I do not need to use the variable after the script has run in any way. Or am i going about this the wrong way?
for example this is one of my ajax calls
var variable1 = 'currentuser1var';
return $.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: '/users/index',
data: {currentuser1var: variable1},
dataType: 'script',
});
then the script in my server side file would be
if (currentuser1var) { script here }
else if (currentuser2var) { script here }
...
I am not sure how to access the string, inside the object call. Do i need to access the object first then the string? Or just reference the variable some how.
EDIT Tried
if(typeof(currentuser1var) != "undefined") { script here }
to no avail.
If you were using PHP, your server side script would be:
if(isset($_GET['currentuser1var'])) {
... script to process the currentuser1var variable ...
} else if (isset($_GET['currentuser2var'])) {
... script to process the currentuser2var variable ...
}
Aj was right here I guess for php as I did not list what server side code I was using, but simply put, I changed my ajax call to
return $.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: '/users/show',
data: { currentuser1var: 'variable1'},
});
where the key is currentuser1var and the value variable1 is a string and leave out defining the variable else where in the code. That way the url comes through correctly to the server being /users/show?currentuser1var=variable1. And in my destination file add my ruby code there to use the variables.