Calling PHP scripts from Javascript without leaving current page

Question

I\'m having some trouble calling PHP scripts from Javascript without leaving the current HTML page (if it is at all possible). I understand it is possible using AJAX, althou

Answer 1

I understand it is possible using AJAX, although is it possible using Javascript alone?

If you don't want to use XHR, you could use this ugly hack...

var request = 'mysql-insert.php',
    image = new Image();

image.onload = function() {
  // Success
}

image.onerror = function() {
  // Error
}

image.src = request;

Except that was only really used before widespread use of AJAX (or needing to make a cross domain request).

I would just use AJAX. jQuery provides some great abstractions for working with XHR.