loading a page with ajax

Hello All,

I am currently moving a static page into wordpress and am having a slight problem with a touch of code I have.

I have a page (not a dynamic WP page, but template_portfolio.php) that I want to insert into a <div> that is on the home page. This worked fine when the page was just a static php page, but now that it has been moved to WP the code doesn’t pull the page anymore. I assume there is something different in how WP handles this.

So, I have an empty div
<div id="port_overlay"> </div>
and I want to insert the following page
template_portfolio.php

I have been using

$("#testing").click(function(){
		$("#port_overlay").load("template_portfolio.php");
	})

and this is in a file called loader.js

Any help would be great.
Thanks,

Harberg