Software Engineering on the loose

I managed to make the Ajax.InPlaceEditor do some work for me. I had no idea what was wrong with my original approach until today, when I used Firebug to inspect the sent and returned values of my code. It was just then when I realised that there was no actual return value.

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<h1 id="test">Test value</h1>
<script type="text/javascript">
        new Ajax.InPlaceEditor('test', 'output.php',{callback: function(form, value) { return 'name=' + escape(value)}});
      </script>

The solution was easy, the return value of the InPlaceEditor’s method needed a bit altering:

And here is output.php

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$var = $_POST['name'];
echo $var;
?>

Easy