expanding an ad/listing in the current page

[ravravid]

Hi,
I am building a site for real estate selling.
When the user performs a search he get a list of results.
usually the user need to press a result to be directed to a page with only the current result detail, but I want to improve it and to make it so that when the user presses the ad, the ad opens in the current page, allowing him to view the current ads detail plus the lines of the other ads, and ofcourse he can then click on as many mor ads in this way.
I saw one implementation of that, in which the data of all the ads is downloaded to the user, and another implementation in which on clicking the ad, it connects to the server and brings only the relevant details, so the page is not reloaded, just the relevant ad is opened with the details. so it is pretty fast (less than 1 second).

How can I do it. both implementations?

Thanks
ravid

[Weedpacket]

Neither is particularly PHP-based, as all the functionality you're describing is implemented on the client. The first is a matter of using Javascript to change the display style of the ads (when the page is initially loaded, their display styles are all set to "none": when "clicked", the function that handles the onClick event changes the style to "block").

The other is called RPC or Remote Procedure Call (to give you a phrase to Google with). You can use PHP's XML-RPC if you're feeling adventurous in dealing with the server side (most of the functionality is still being done on the client, and hence with Javascript, however), or try something here.

[ravravid]

thank you,
that helped alot