I’ve thought of your issue – new to me -, and I could just think of one approach. I am not sure it’s the only one neither the easiest one, but I believe it could do the job.

The approach is to import the whole boo.php file, but just dump into the target DIV of the main page the information contained in the origin DIV of the boo.php file. The filtering could be done with JavaScript, by using string functions as found here:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_string.asp

The functions you could use for that are two:

Search()
Slice()

Assuming the string is the whole imported boo.php code; with search() you find the start and ending numbers for slicing the string into pieces. You want here to start slicing where the following is found in the string: < div id = "origin_div" > and end the slice where the corresponding < / div > is found. Use the search() to find where those points are, and then assign those values to the slice() function. The sliced part should be the wished content and therefore the only part of the whole string to be displayed in the target DIV.

I’m not sure if I explained it clearly enough, I hope yes, as I unfortunately don’t have the time to code this. Let me know if you get it to work, however

Greetings

N.B.: If I’m not wrong, I think you cannot import external pages content using the AJAX method, just those present in your server (security grounds).

I want to pass this PHP variable $destFile from index.html to foo.php so that i can then use that variable inside foo.php.

I am able to do this with php include, but not sure how to do this here.

great code, and will be the best if i can get this figured out!

Try adding the following:

var seconds;

in the line just before

window.onload = function startrefresh(){

Kind regards

Do you have any idea why IE8 keeps saying ’seconds’ is undefined. I have your code working fine, but would like to get rid of the error if possible.

http://www.edwardbrett.com/test.html

Thanks,
Edward

the content div was upadated with ajax

this is ajax loaded div content

but when i view the contents in view page source the div still remains same instead it should replace with above code.also please tell me ajax has any effect on web crawler