$.post problems

[garethsmall]

Hello, I am creating a little trivia game, and i have run into a problem! I am looking to used AJAX's $.post to call on a PHP files and send a VARIABLE over. The problem is the PHP script isnt getting it ive run through my script a few times and it looks to be a problem with the PHP. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED EVEN IF ITS PUSHING ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION! heres my CODE :


JQUERY/AJAX

function CallQuestionPhp()
	{
    $.post('rootDir + "_mods/ajax/trivia/" + triviaID', {category: QuestionCategory}, function(result){	
		if(result.indexOf('~~ERROR~~') > -1){
			createMessageBox(result.replace(/\~\~ERROR\~\~/gi, ''))
		
		}
		else{
      		$("#trivia_question_body").html(result);
			
		}
    });
	}

PHP

		
		if(isset($_POST['category'])){
			$jscat = $_POST['category'];
				$categories = db_get_by_sql("SELECT * FROM trivia_categories");
			foreach($categories as $key => $getcat){
				
				if ($jscat = $getcat[id])
				{
						$getquestion = db_get_by_sql("SELECT * FROM trivia_types WHERE trivia_category_id = $getcat[id] ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1");
						$out .=' ' .$getquestion['question']. ' ';
							$answers = db_get_by_sql("SELECT * FROM trivia_answers where trivia_type_id = $getquestion[id] ORDER BY RAND()");
				foreach($answers as $key1 => $getanswer)
				{
					$out.=' ' .$getanswer[name]. ' ';
				}
				}
			}
		}

[garethsmall]

I have found the problem! My head developer forgot to inform me of the outdated version of the CMS i was using. The problem had to do with the htacess file blocking the $_POST out. Thank you everyone!