You'll need to store the array-in-progress somewhere (session, database, hidden DOM elements in your AJAX replies...) because each AJAX transaction is an independent HTTP request, meaning that your environment does not automatically carry over from one to the next.

The basic structure of your AJAX handler, then, will be something along the lines of: 

  retrieve previous set of values
  add new user-submitted value to the set
  store new set of values
  send an HTML snippet back for CGI::Ajax to insert into the page

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If you show some of your current code, we can provide more detailed advice, but perhaps that brief outline will be enough to get you going.

In reply to Re: Ajax to refresh array by dsheroh
in thread Ajax to refresh array by packetstormer

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