Hello! I'm very new to jQuery and AJAX.
i read a bit of the API provided by jquery on their website which said :
Example: Alert out the results from requesting test.php (HTML or XML, depending on what was returned).
$.post("test.php", function(data){
alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
});
Now,i'd like to know how exactly test.php returns some data . I mean,could someone provide a sample "test.php" here
Thanks! :D
You could just return a simple string. Whatever the output is of the URL parameter will be captured by the particular ajax method you are using:
<?php echo 'this is a test'; ?>
If you want to return a more complex structure (such as json) you could do:
<?php
$data = array('foo' => 'bar');
echo json_encode($data);
?>
and on the client:
$.post("test.php", function(json){
alert("Data Loaded: " + json.foo);
}, "json");
test.php could look like this:
<tag>Data!!!</tag>
No <?php tags necessary.
If you're using JSON (which is a good choice for a lot of things) you can create a PHP object or array and then do:
<?php echo json_encode($my_object); ?>
<?php echo 'return data'; ?>
What happens is that the browser will make a request to the given URL, much like any other web request, with the exception that the browser doesn't render the result; it hands it to you so that you may do with it what you wish.
For returning complex php-objects as JSON objects, for your javascript to interact with, check out json_encode()
Lets say if you have some code in test.php
<?php
echo "test data from test.php"
?>
The message is passed to data variable of javascript and will be alerted finally.
Some useful links
Here is example and simple application
index.php
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title><!-- Insert your title here --></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function register(){
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "submit_data.php",
data: "username=" + document.getElementById("username").value +
"&email=" + document.getElementById("email").value,
success: function(html){
$("#response").html(html);
}
});
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
<p>
<label for="name">Name:</label><br />
<input type="text" name="username" id="name" size="25" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="email">Email:</label><br />
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" size="25" />
</p>
<p>
<input type="button" name="submit" id="submit" value="Subscribe" onclick="register()"/>
</p>
</form>
<div id="response">
<!-- Our message will be echoed out here -->
</div>
</body>
</html>
submit_data.php
<?php
// Variables
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_user = 'user';
$db_pass = 'pass';
$db_name = 'db';
$Username = $_POST['username'];
$Email = $_POST['email'];
// DB
$connect = mysql_connect( $db_host, $db_user, $db_pass ) or die( mysql_error() );
$connection = $connect;
mysql_select_db( $db_name, $connect ) or die( mysql_error() );
// Inserting into DB
$qInsertUser = mysql_query(" INSERT INTO `database` (`id`, `username`, `email`)
VALUES ( ``, `$Username`, `$Email`)
");
if ($qInsertUser){
echo "You are now subscribed to our newsletter. Thank you!";
} else {
echo "Error!";
}
?>