jQuery click event to change php session variable
jquery, php
Solution
Javascript (jQuery) is executed on the client-side.
PHP, and its session mecanism, is executed on the server-side.
So, to do anything related to a PHP session, you have to go to the server, doing a full HTTP Request -- you cannot stay on the client-side.
Doing an Ajax request is a way of going to the server -- works fine ;-) What you are doing is OK (and necessary, actually), if you want to affect some session data : you don't have much of a choice, even if it feels like some kind of waste.
Problem
What would be the best approach to this? Because, as I found (and it made total sense, only after having tried it :p) that you can't set a PHP variable on javascripts conditions. (duurrhh) The only solution I can come up with is to do an AJAX call to a small PHP file that handles the session variables ``` elm.click(function() { $.post("session.php", { "hints":"off" }); turnOffHints(); } ``` And then let the `session.php` deal with setting the new variable. But it sorta feels like a waste to do a full http request only to set one variable in PHP...