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and that seems to be true. I think some of the jquery clogged up my brain. $id = isset( $_POST['id'] ) ? $_POST['defaultid'] : "";

its related to the thread:http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=50396 But i found that javascript related questions are better suited for this forum, rather then php. var results = $('[name^=id]').map(function(){ var $this = $(this); var $defaultid = this.defaultValue; $($this).on('focusout',function(e){ var $id = $($this).val(); if ($id != $defaultid){ console.log($id); console.log($defaultid); $($this).css('background-color', '#FFA07A'); $.ajax ({ url: 'index.php?action=ticket_ajax', type: 'post', data: {'id': $id, 'defaultid': $defaultid, 'page' : 'update'}, success : function(data) { console.log(data); } }); }; }); }); Problem with the code above is that the ajax submits $id as default value, instead of the changed value.:{"id":"999","defaultid":"999"} is the json it returns to the console.Id should be 1 - the console.log right before the ajax prints 1 to the console.So why does ajax suddenly get a different value for it right after?

it displays all the rows currently in the database - when user adds new ones, they have default values. Tho the jscript above - why would ajax get a diff value fir $id then the console.log shows just before it?

login/session management is completely separate, the whole project is modular. The form can be from just 10 rows in the beginning to 20+ if the user needs more.this far iv got to this: var results = $('[name^=id]').map(function(){ var $this = $(this); var $defaultid = this.defaultValue; $($this).on('focusout',function(e){ var $id = $($this).val(); if ($id != $defaultid){ console.log($id); console.log($defaultid); $($this).css('background-color', '#FFA07A'); $.ajax ({ url: 'index.php?action=ticket_ajax', type: 'post', data: {'id': $id, 'defaultid': $defaultid, 'page' : 'update'}, success : function(data) { console.log(data); } }); }; }); }); one of those for each "name" field - so 3 in total.But im having issue with ajax - when i return the json it seem to have sent the default value instead. 1 999 {"id":"999","defaultid":"999"} 1 is the new value 999 is default(random testing values).If i use console.log($id); before and it shows the $id has new value - but the same variable with ajax has default value. whats up with that?

so i submit it over ajax. $.ajax({ url: 'xx.php?blahblah', type: 'post', data: {'category': category, 'id': id},}); But how would i in that case only submit the changed values and refresh the table in return with new ones?my row 3 input names would all be arrays. <input type='text' name='category[]' size='40' value='".$category[$i]['category']."'/> And thee can be any unspecified number of those in the whole final table.I have very little experience with jquery/javascript so im not sure where to start with all of this. EDIT:I did find that you can detect change of a textbox by using: $('input[name="Value"]').on('input',function(e){}); But that only helps partially - i don't have static input names. They can be id1, id2, id3 id 400 etc - since its declared as id[] - and since the number of results varies i cannot predict what it will be.

how would ajax be less bandwidth wise? it submits the same amount of data and i need to reload the same form page after update anyways to show updated data.

im not using JavaScript or ajax. Its an html form. The data is pulled through a global/shared function and then the for loop populates the form with rows from that data.

i don't need to tell php what changed - i only want to post the ones that changed. But if the name is as an array it would still post the whole form with all the generated "rows". The changed results would then be used to update the database. To compare it all i would ether have to pull the whole table from db and compare each result with the array i get from $_POST - all of which requires extra loops and after that i can use the new compared array to loop through and update DB for each changed value. That's a lot of extra bandwidth and delay and cpu usage for a simple task. Posting only rows that did get changed would save from the first half of comparing everything to the database.

So the form fields are dynamically created based off the database results with a for loop. 3 text inputs per row - with a value from the database. Now the problem is that submitting the form this way wouldn't work - the name fields would be same and only last one would be submitted. Turning the name filed into an array - so each is different - doesn't work ether. It will submit everything in the whole form without any way to identify which "row" was edited. Multiple forms and each row with its on submit button is too bulky and ugly. for ($i = 0; $i < $csize; $i++){ $out .= "<tr>"; $out .= "<td style='width: 230px; padding: 7px;'>"; $out .= "<input type='text' name='category"' size='40' value='".$category[$i]['category']."'/></td>"; $out .= "<td style='width: 230px; padding: 7px;'>"; $out .= "<input type='text' name='id' size='40' value='".$category[$i]['id']."'/></td>"; $out .= "<td style='width: 230px; padding: 7px;'>"; $out .= "<input type='text' name='permission' size='40' value='".$category[$i]['permission']."'/></td>"; $out .= "<input type='hidden' name='org_id' value='".$category[$i]['id']."'/></td>"; $out .= "<td><a class='icon_link ".BASE_COLOR." 'href='".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']."&page=delete&id=".$category[$i]['id']."'><i class='icon-trash icon-large' title='Delete Category'></i></a></td>"; $out .= "</tr>";} Would there be any alternative to this kind of setup? Surely the modern web has something that doesn't require you to have to submit after every row if u have some data like that to update.