Is it possible to change an HTML element property using its ID with PHP?

Question

I want to do something like this:

page A has a link to page B
page B gets content from a database and processes it
the result from page B is displayed on a div in page A

Please notice that I don't want to leave page A while page B processes the information of the database.

What I'm really trying to do is avoid using frames in the site, and I want to make the pages appear in a div. Is this possible?

I'm guessing its kinda of a newbie question, but it's really bugging me and i don't even know where to start looking.

Answer 1

You want AJAX!

AJAX will do that, but the steps will be a little different from what you describe

• page A has a link that calls a javascript function
• the javascript function makes an AJAX call to page B which gets content from a database and processes it
• the result from page B is returned to the javascript function
• page a displays it in a div

Answer 2

What you are looking for is JavaScript and AJAX.