How to display a response from jQuery/ajax call in PHP

Question

So I have the following code that someone else helped me get:

function updateEpisodeSeen() {
    var anime_id = <? php echo $anime_id; ?> ;
    var anime_list_entry_id = <? php echo $anime_list_entry_id; ?> ;

    jQuery.post("/path_to_it/my_php_file.php", {
        firstParam: anime_id,
        secondParam: anime_list_entry_id
    }, function (data) {
        //this is your response data from serv
        console.log(data);
    });
    return false;
}                       

Now the .php file that is ran, I update some information and echo two variables out.

So in the console.log(data); those two variable values are shown properly. I am just wondering how I can show these values in my actual php code? Since these values are updated on the backend, I want to show the users their updated values on the front end as well. So if I could possibly set a php variable to those responses and then echo those instead, but php code isn't ran until a page refreshes so that might not be the way to go since I want the values to update without the page refreshing.

Answer 1

if you want to assign the response to some PHP variable you can follow this

jQuery Ajax response variable from php

if you want assign to a html variable you can do that using Jquery

 $('#ID OF FIELD').val(data.text);

or

 $('#ID OF FIELD').html(data.text);