Concatenating a variable and load url using jQuery UI dialog

I'm trying to pass a variable 'edit_id' to a load string but it doesn't seem to be working.

This isn't working:

$('#edit-page-dialog').load('includes/form_add_edit_page.inc.php?add-edit=edit&edit_id=' + edit_id).dialog({

Whereas adding the id into the string like this does work:

$('#edit-page-dialog').load('includes/form_add_edit_page.inc.php?add-edit=edit&edit_id=105').dialog({

This is how I'm setting the edit_id variable:

// edit-page dialog Link
$('.ed开发者_开发问答it-page-link').click(function(){
    edit_id = $(this).attr('id');
    $('#edit-page-dialog').dialog('open');
    return false;
});

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Is it at all possible?

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I believe the scope of the variable isn't correct. edit_id is only used inside the function. Try declaring this variable outside the function and assigning the value then.

var  edit_id = 0;

// edit-page dialog Link
$('.edit-page-link').click(function(){
    edit_id = $(this).attr('id');
    $('#edit-page-dialog').dialog('open');
    return false;
});

and then after this function use:

$('#edit-page-dialog').load('includes/form_add_edit_page.inc.php?add-edit=edit&edit_id=' + edit_id).dialog({ })