Passing javascript variable to PHP function

javascript, php

Solution

You can use jQuery for that to post an AJAX request. See this example taken out of jQuery documentation:

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "some.php",
  data: {groupFirstLetter:groupFirstLetter},
  complete: function(data){
            //data contains the response from the php file.
            //u can pass it here to the javascript function
        }
});

The variable will be available in your PHP code as `$_POST['groupFirstLetter']`. You can manipulate it as you wish then `echo` a response to the browser again and it will be available in the `data` variable. references:

jQuery AJAX

Problem

I have this javascript code ``` <Script> function getGroupId(){ var group=document.getElementById("selectedOptions").value; var groupFirstLetter=group.substring(2); } </Script> ``` I need to pass the `groupFirstLetter` to a PHP function which will count how many users in this group and return the value to the javascript function. Any ideas please? Thanks,

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