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So I'm trying to have the result that's received from sending a HTTP GET request to an HTTP API set as the result of a div. How can I go about loading the result from the API?
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I would do an XMLHttpRequest. You could also use cURL in PHP, but if your wanting to achieve this in JavaScript, use this script.


function someFunctionToLoadStuff()
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
  {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
    {
   document.getElementById("content").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText; //change content to anything you want.
    }
  }
var url = "file";
xmlhttp.open("POST",url,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}


Now all you need in the html is a way of calling the method (say on the click of a button or onload), and the div id of whatever you call in the code above.
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Hey, I can't seem to get that to work with the following code.

    var xmlhttp;
    function someFunctionToLoadStuff()
    {
        if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
        {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
           xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
        else
        {// code for IE6, IE5
            xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
       }
        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
        {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
        {
          document.getElementById("result").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText; //change content to anything
        }
   }
 
    function listener()
    {
        var url = "http://www.somewebsite.com/?tool=skyperesolver&username=live:dean.hemmingfield";
        xmlhttp.open("POST",url,true);
        xmlhttp.send();
        someFunctionToLoadStuff;
    }
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Endermite wrote Hey, I can't seem to get that to work with the following code.

    var xmlhttp;
    function someFunctionToLoadStuff()
    {
        if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
        {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
           xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
        else
        {// code for IE6, IE5
            xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
       }
        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
        {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
        {
          document.getElementById("result").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText; //change content to anything
        }
   }
 
    function listener()
    {
        var url = "http://www.somewebsite.com/?tool=skyperesolver&username=live:dean.hemmingfield";
        xmlhttp.open("POST",url,true);
        xmlhttp.send();
        someFunctionToLoadStuff;
    }


My apologies. I thought you were trying to achieve this from a file on your own server.

To grab it from another URL, use cURL in PHP. Here is an example:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Grab Test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Grab Stuff</h2>
    <?php
    if(isset($_POST['submitBtn'])) {
        $ch = curl_init();
        $timeout = 5;
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=fkNDcc7i');
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        echo $data;
    }
    ?>
    <form action="" method="POST">
        <input type="submit" name="submitBtn" value="Click to load" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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Right, thank you for your help, now how can I add a value from a HTML TextField to the url to load in PhP?
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Endermite wrote Right, thank you for your help, now how can I add a value from a HTML TextField to the url to load in PhP?


Use this


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Grab Test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Grab Stuff</h2>
    <?php
    if(isset($_POST['submitBtn'])) {
        $ch = curl_init();
        $timeout = 5;
        $query = $_POST['itemToSearch'];
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://thetechgame.com/raw.php?i={$query}');
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        echo $data;
    }
    ?>
    <form action="" method="POST">
        <input type="text" name="itemToSearch" placeholder="something" />
        <input type="submit" name="submitBtn" value="Click to load" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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Hey man,

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Gander wrote Hey man,

I was on Work Experiance with some Coders who work for santander called Isban, who develops programs and the website for them etc..

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Refrain from using W3Schools. It's basically the 'Wikipedia for Web'

I would use the Mozilla Development Network [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] for front-end, and for any PHP-related problems, search up the function on PHP's Documentation site: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
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