I am having trouble figuring the best was to design a piece of ajax functionality.

I have a php page with a list of users. Each row has an actions button, when the button is clicked it calls the server to get the state and creates a row of links (follow and activate for instance).

If you click on a link labeled activate it makes an ajax call to change the state of the user's activate field. The button should now be replaced with a deactivate activate button.

I have figured out a few ways to do this but none seamed very clean or degradable. Is there a best-practices approach to solve this issue or has anyone done this before?

All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,

Ian