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user1661548
user1661548

Reputation:

Pass variable from jQuery to PHP

I created a script to read a hash (www.website.com/#hash) and pass the hash in to php. The alert(hash) pops up with the hash value, but the hash is not being echoed out in the post variable. Any idea why?

jQuery page

<script>
    var hash = location.hash;
    $.post("community.php", {
        hash: hash
    });
    alert(hash);
</script>

Community.php page

<?php echo $_POST['hash']; ?>



Edits - $_GET below was originally $_POST above.

I have a foreach that is looping through postings (posting IDs) in a function. I need to pass the HASH into the function and compare it to the posting IDs everytime. Only problem is, the $_GET['hash'] will not show up inside the function.

function something() {
   echo $_GET['hash'];
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 21293

Answers (5)

LoneWOLFs
LoneWOLFs

Reputation: 2306

$.post is an ajax event. You are posting data by ajax so by that the page doesn't go to the communitypage.php. For the behaviour you want you have to do normal form post and not ajax post. $.post will retrive anything you echo on communitypage.php using this code.

//Note the 3rd argument is a callback.
var hash = location.hash;
$.post('communitypage.php',{hash:hash},function(data){
    alert(data);
});

Process hash on that page and alert something if u find the hash. You'd find the echo in the data

You could mod the communitypage.php to return html as below

<?php
if($isset($_POST["hash"]) && strlen(trim($_POST["hash"])) > 0){
    echo "Hash found :: " . $_POST["hash"]; 
}else
    echo "No hash found";
?>

Note this will return html you can modify the response to return xml, json as per your needs.

Refer jQuery post() documentation for more info.

For the updated question

It works outside because it is called when the ajax call is made inside a function it won't because the function is not called. If you want to do that (and i don't know why) u can do like this.

function myfunction(){
    //your code goes here
}

myfunction(); //call the function so that the code in the function is called upon

Though that's an overkill unless u want to call the function over and over in the same script. If it works without a function you should do it that way.

Upvotes: 2

Nirmal
Nirmal

Reputation: 2368

  <script>
  var hash = location.hash;
   //Try this.
   window.location.href = 'community.php?val='+hash;
  </script>

OR

   <script>
   $.post("community.php","val="+hash);
   </script>

In community.php

     $res=isset($_REQUEST['val'])?$_REQUEST['val']:'';

hope it will give you some solution.

Upvotes: 1

Jai
Jai

Reputation: 74738

but the hash is not being echoed out in the post variable

This is because if you want to send it when page loads then you have to use this in doc ready handler:

<script>
  $(function(){
     var hash = location.hash;
     $.post("community.php", { hash: hash });
     alert(hash);
  });
</script>

Upvotes: 0

Svetoslav
Svetoslav

Reputation: 4676

<script>
    var hash = location.hash;
    $.post("community.php", {
        hash: hash
    }, function(responde){ alert(responde); });
</script>

To check what your PHP response :)

Upvotes: 3

Dino Babu
Dino Babu

Reputation: 5809

use ajax like this, send the value in hash

  function send_hash(hash) {
    $.ajax({
      url   : "community.php", 
      type  : "POST",
      cache : false,
      data  : {
        hash : hash
      }
    });
  }

now u will get

<?php echo $_POST['hash']; ?>

Upvotes: 3

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