Use PHP to upload anything HTML to a SQL Database???

[culvi]

Hi everyone,
I am a newb at PHP and have used it very minamally in the past (includes and forms) yet I have a series of questions about PHP and databases and capturing specific information. Here is my scenerio:

I have a page that does not refresh (this might make or break everyones answers that is why I mention it first). All user interaction is being done via Ajax or Jquery (Javascript).  That said, I have a menu where the user can make a selection (clicking on an HREF or link) and that selection is being told by the javascript to display elsewhere on the page. Once they make that selection, a submit button appears and when they click it, they get another list of selections - all the while the page has yet to refresh. 

The question is, can I somehow send the values of the HREF to a sql database for tracking purposes and if so, how? 

When I ask how, I am needing to know how to target the Href, assign it a $name, and then somehow get it to the database. As I stated above I know you can do this with a form and I know how to do that very easily. But there is no 'name' attribute in HREF and also I am not using a <form> with the selections.

I am currently using the "title" attribute to show the user what selection they have clicked. Do I need to assign the HREF some other attribute (as with the 'name' attribute in an input tag) so that I can have a PHP script that knows what HREF link has been clicked? In my mind I know there has to be a way but being so fresh to PHP, I cannot figure out how to even begin to write this.

Thanks so much for the help guys

[big_nerd]

culvi,

Ajax works if I am not mistaken by querying the back-end server, is this done via PHP? If so, whatever the AJAX is querying can indeed log whatever you need to.

Maybe if you are able to provide more information on how the ajax portion at least works on your site, we can help you.

[culvi]

big.nerd - Thanks for the response!

My code that is swapping the title is a custom Javascript function I created modeled after innerHTML. It currently looks like this:

$(document).ready(function() {

	$(".subSelect").click(function() {
	var title = $(this).attr("title");
	$("#txtswap").css({'color': '#97CF36','text-shadow': '1px 1px #6e6e6e'});
	$("#txtswap").html("1: Offer = "+title);

	$(".subSelect2").click(function() {
	var title = $(this).attr("title");
	$("#txtswap2").css({'color': '#97CF36'});
	$("#txtswap2").html("2: Need = "+title);

});
});

	$("#submitter2").click(function() {
	var title2 = $("submitter2").val();
	$("#txtswap2").css({'color': '#97CF36'});
	$("#txtswap2").html("2: Need = "+title2);

	$(".submitter2").click(function() {
	var title = $(this).attr("title");
	$("#txtswap2").css({'color': '#97CF36','text-shadow': '1px 1px #6e6e6e'});
	$("#txtswap2").html("2: Need = "+title);

   });
});
});

So basically the .subSelect is the class of ALL selections. When clicked it takes the attribute of the HREF, colors it, and swaps the #txtswap div text with the attributes title text.

So there HAS to be a way to tell PHP to grab the title or attribute of the HREF and submit it to the database upon the user hitting submit.

Does this help you to help me?

Once again thanks very much!

[culvi]

Oh and I used AJAX somewhere else in this product. My mistake, all of this portion was created using Javascript only.

[culvi]

Hmmm.....Guess it must be done by other means