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copied!<p>What does the following line mean?</p> <pre><code>jQuery.post('/codes/handlers/delete_a_question.php', { question_id: jQuery(this).attr('question_id') } </code></pre> <p>Context in HEAD,</p> <pre><code>jQuery('a.delete_question').live('click', function(){ jQuery.post('/codes/handlers/delete_a_question.php', { question_id: jQuery(this).attr('question_id') }, function(data){ alert ("Output of the delete.php -page: " + data ); // `data` is probably unnecessary }) }); </code></pre> <p>My handler in <code>/codes/delete_a_question.php</code>,</p> <pre><code>$dbconn = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=noa user=noa password=123"); $result = pg_prepare ( $dbconn, "delete_question_query", "DELETE FROM questions WHERE question_id = $1" ); $result = pg_execute ( $dbconn, "delete_question_query", array ( $_GET['question_id'] ) ); header( "Location: /codes/index.php?successful_removal"); </code></pre> <p>HTML,</p> <pre><code> echo ("<a href='#' class='delete_question'" . " id=question_id'" . $question_id . "'" // to have question_id777 . ">delete</a>" ); </code></pre> <p>I am trying to remove a question if the user clicks a link first by getting the question_id from GET. However, I have not managed to get the jQuery code to work. I get the following popup and the question is not removed.</p> <p>I get now as a popup <a href="http://dpaste.com/83881/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this code</a> after solving the problem with one <code>(</code> and changing <code>$_GET</code> to <code>$_POST</code>.</p>

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