Call PHP function from jQuery

Question

I have a PHP function on my site which takes a couple of seconds to complete  This holds the whole page up which I don t want   Would it be possible with jquery to call this PHP function after the page has loaded and display the results in a div  Also to display an ajax loader image until the PHP function has completed   I ve been looking at jQuery post but can t seem to get it to work   Would someone be able to help   Thank you

User · Accepted Answer

AJAX does the magic     document  ready function         ajax   url   script php argument value amp foo bar

User · Answer

This is exactly what ajax is for  See here   http   api jquery com load   Basically  you ajax test php and put the returned HTML code to the element which has the result id       result   load  ajax test php      Of course  you will need to put the functionality which takes time to a new php file  or call the old one with a GET parameter which will activate that functionality only

User · Answer

Yes  this is definitely possible  You ll need to have the php function in a separate php file  Here s an example using   post     post        yourphpscript php      location of your php script       name   bob   user id  1234       any data you want to send to the script     function  data        a function to deal with the returned information              body    append  data               And then  in your php script  just echo the html you want  This is a simple example  but a good place to get started    lt  php     echo   lt div id  test  gt Hello  World  lt  div gt      gt

User · Answer

Thanks all  I took bits of each of your solutions and made my own   The final working solution is    lt script type  text javascript  gt        document  ready function              ajax               url    lt  php bloginfo  template url      gt  functions twitter php               data   tweets  lt  php echo  ct tweets    gt  amp account  lt  php echo  ct twitter    gt                success  function data                        twitter-loader   remove                        twitter-container   html data                                     lt  script gt

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