/// This is how I am pulling the inforation from the database ///

<?php
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "simpsoft_nadmin";
$dbpass = "ilH5roEL?++A1";
$dbname = "simpsoft_allnews";

	//Connect to MySQL Server
mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
	//Select Database
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());

$artid = "1";

//build query
$query = "SELECT * FROM tbl_news_articles WHERE IDone = '$artid'";
$qry_result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

	// Insert a new row in the table for each person returned
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($qry_result)){

	$display_string .= "<table border='0' class='newsarticletbl'>";
	$display_string .= "<tr style='height:34px;'><td><img src='";
	$display_string .= "$row[IconURL]";
	$display_string .= "' width='42' height='34' alt='article icon' /></td><td valign='top'><h5>";
	$display_string .= "$row[SmallHeader]";
	$display_string .= "</h5><p class='newsarticledate'>Date Posted - ";
	$display_string .= "$row[DatePosted]";
	$display_string .= "</p></td></tr>";
	$display_string .= "<tr><td colspan='2' valign='top'><p class='newsarticletxt'>";
	$display_string .= "$row[SmallPar]";
	$display_string .= "<a href='#' style='color:#b40101;margin-left:4px;'><del>Read More</del></a>";
	$display_string .= "</p></td></tr></table>";
	$display_string .= "<img src='/images/article_sep.gif' width='130' height='2' alt='article sep' class='articlesep' />";
}
echo $display_string;
?>


/// This is how I am calling it into my HTML ///

<script type="text/javascript">
				<!--
				//Browser Support Code
				function ajaxFunction(){
					var ajaxRequest;  // The variable that makes Ajax possible!

					try{
						// Opera 8.0+, Firefox, Safari
						ajaxRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
					} catch (e){
						// Internet Explorer Browsers
						try{
							ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
						} catch (e) {
							try{
								ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
							} catch (e){
								// Something went wrong
								alert("Your browser broke!");
								return false;
							}
						}
					}
					// Create a function that will receive data sent from the server
					ajaxRequest.onreadystatechange = function(){
						if(ajaxRequest.readyState == 4){
							var ajaxDisplay = document.getElementById('ajaxDiv');
							ajaxDisplay.innerHTML = ajaxRequest.responseText;
						}
					}
					ajaxRequest.open("GET", "/inclu/news.php");
					ajaxRequest.send(null);
				}
				//-->
				</script>
				<div id='ajaxDiv'></div>


Basically I want to know how I can pass a variable