Accessing Jquery Data Variable In Ajax Call In Server Side Script

I have a few ajax calls in my app they all go to the same file server side. i want to know if I can use a variable... I want to have a way to distinguish the call from other calls

Solution 1:

If you were using PHP, your server side script would be:

if(isset($_GET['currentuser1var'])) {


    ... script to process the currentuser1var variable ...


} elseif (isset($_GET['currentuser2var'])) {


    ... script to process the currentuser2var variable ...


}

Solution 2:

Aj was right here I guess for php as I did not list what server side code I was using, but simply put, I changed my ajax call to

return $.ajax({
  type: 'GET',
  url: '/users/show', 
  data: { currentuser1var: 'variable1'},
});

where the key is currentuser1var and the value variable1 is a string and leave out defining the variable else where in the code. That way the url comes through correctly to the server being /users/show?currentuser1var=variable1. And in my destination file add my ruby code there to use the variables.