document.body.appendChild return

[liderbug]

document.body.appendChil
function extdb (a, b)
{
 var myval1 = a+","+b;
 e1 = document.createElement("script");
 e1.src = "sbsave.php?info="+myval1;
//alert (e1.src);
 e1.type = "text/javascript";
var ret = document.body.appendChild(e1);
alert (ret);
}

I have a web page, looks like a spreadsheet.  Some entries have a [ del ] or [ add ] onclick(extdb...) with them.
The sbsave.php script (in this case does a "curl" operation (another page does a mysql op).  So everthing
works fine - except for "RET". I can't get the JS/php to return the results of the operation .  When click on the
del/add on page the script executes the curl and I'd like it to popup an alert saying "Success" / "Failed" / "Already there"
from the output of sbsave.

Thanks.

 

 

[dsonesuk]

You trying to create javascript script tags then code after the page is rendered! through a function? All javascript must be applied on page load, call to functions, the elements they manipulate must exist at that time.

All ret refers to is the appending of child script tag and code to body, not any code returned.

You need to look into AJAX, it send request to server page, on return status success code (200) it return the results produced.