Calling a page with ajax based on url parameter

Question

please can anyone help me with this problem that i've encountered. i'm able to capture a url parameter with javascript and i want to add it to my jquery code which calls a page in a div  but i'm able to do it. here's my code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function urlink()
var tlink = window.location.search.substring(1)
jQuery(function($){
    $('#mydiv').load('real_news.asp?'+ urllink());
</script>

Answer 1

Your jquery is trying to add data by calling a function. Also, you're just getting the value of the parameter. There's not a key to trigger anything on your server-side script. Make sure real_news.asp is processing correctly, looking for key (some-key) AND value (tlink). You might want to simply try concatenating the value of the var like this though:
<script>
var tlink = window.location.search.substring(1);
$('document').ready(function() {
$("#mydiv").load("real_news.asp?some-key=" + tlink);
</script>
Another way you could do it is use server side scripting to look and see if the URL-PARAM is set and if it is then echo value of URL-PARAM into load() method. php example below. I'm sure you can find an asp equivalent to achieve the same result. I think the key (pun) to this problem is that you do not have a key to associate the value with in order to process anything.
<script>
<?php if (isset($_GET['URL-PARAM'])) { ?>
$('document').ready(function() {
$("#mydiv").load("real_news.asp?some-key=<?php echo $_GET['URL-PARAM']; ?>");
<?php }else{ ?>
alert ("there is no ?URL-PARAM=something in the URL!!!");
<?php } ?>
</script>
best,
Shocker