title: Passing a variable to PHP with jQuery .load
body: <p>I have a page ("main.php") which loads content from an external PHP file ("rpc.php"). Using the below syntax on main.php successfully pulls in content from rpc.php:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#portfolioContent").load("rpc.php?o="+day+"");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On rpc.php I have an if statement (part of a long switch function), as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if ( $pagename == "home" ) {
  break;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This break is not occuring because the variable has not been set. rpc.php is used by various parent pages so the variables need to be set on those. On a parent page I have tried using the following code to attempt to set the variable and pass it to rpc.php but to no avail:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#portfolioContent").load("rpc.php?o="+day+"$pagename="home"");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thank you.</p>