Help with CI, PHP & Javscript

[eluser]cideveloper[/eluser]
This is not how MVC works. you should have a controller call a function in a model to get your database results and then pass it to your view. After you deal with that can of worms, you don't really need javascript to do this. you just need to pass the values of the link to your controller and run the query for the right side. The thing about your code is that both the left and right have the exact same sql. You would assume the left side would have the sql to pull up a list while the right sql should pull up details based on the passed values. Once you get it all set up without javascript then you can add jquery and run some ajax calls to populate the right side. I always do it this way for public facing applications cause you don't know if someone will have javascript turned off.