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MeltingDog
MeltingDog

Reputation: 15404

JQuery Send data to page using jQuery Post and data()

I'm having a bit of difficulty conceptualising this: I have some data stored to a button:

var input2 = '<button id="viewmap1" class="viewmap">Find on Map</button>';
        //MAKE DATA
        $(input2).data('longlat', coords);

Now I want to send that data to another page. I understand I am to use jQuery post, eg:

$.post("test.html", { func: "getNameAndTime" },
  function(data){
    alert("Hello"); 
  }, "json");

But im not entirely sure how to go about it. Can any one point me in the right direction? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 404

Answers (2)

Aaron Digulla
Aaron Digulla

Reputation: 328604

Sending data to a different page isn't as simple as it sounds. If it were simple, crackers could manipulate all the other pages that you currently have open in browser tabs.

When you call $.post(), that just sends data to the server, not to another page. The URL is a way to tell the server how to process the data but it doesn't magically connect you to the browser tab/window which has test.html open.

The usual solution is to use a single page which contains the button and the elements to display the results (a.k.a "view"). You send the POST request and then update the view in the callback function.

Upvotes: 2

code-jaff
code-jaff

Reputation: 9330

$(input2).on('click', function(){
 // do your post stuffs
});

then need to trigger the button click

$(input2).click();

Upvotes: 0

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