Hey thanks for the reply, the group lives!!!
I did that and still nothing. I am using codeigniter and I would like to paste the code incase it sheds more light and maybe a solution? thanks here it is: MODEL- function displayby_name($name) { $this->db->select ("articletitle,articlebody,articleauthor"); $this->db->from ('articles'); $this->db->where('articletitle',$name); $Q = $this->db- >get(); if($Q->num_rows() > 0){ $text = $Q->result_array(); } echo $this->db->last_query(); return $text; } CONTROLLER- function readarticle() { $articlename = $this->input->post('active'); $output = $this->articles->displayby_name($articlename); if($output){ $data['article'] = $output; } $this->load->view('loadarticle',$data); } thanks for the help On Oct 7, 10:41 pm, rosnovski <rosnov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi y'all, > > Please look at this code: > > $('ul#navigation li ul li>a').click(function(){ > var active = $(this).text(); > $('#artcontent p').empty(); > $.ajax({ > type: 'POST', > url: 'homepage/readarticle', > data: $(active).serialize(), > success: function(databack){ > $('#artcontent').append(databack); > } > }) > }); > > I have a ul li a that are children of parent ul navigation and li. > what I am trying to do is to load an article page. This works but it > reads the database and loads all the articles in my database instead > of the one identified by active. I would like to know what I am doing > wrong or is there a better way to go about this?