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Jones
Jones

Reputation: 399

Accessing serialized form data in PHP

I'm trying to avoid the pesky page reload and trying to dynamically reload a div when the user submits a form. However, although the data does get passed successfully and the output of the serialized data is correct, I am not able to access these in the PHP file.

Here is my code:

<script>
    var submiting = false;

    function submitmyforum()
    {
        alert($('#filter_form').serialize());
        if (submiting == false)
        {
            submiting  = true;
            $.ajax({
                type:   'post',
                url:    'index.php',
                data:   $('#filter_form').serialize(),
                success: function(data, status, jqXHR) {
                    $('#clublist').html($(data).filter('#clublist').contents());
                    alert('submitted');
                    submiting  = false;
                }
            });
        }
        else
        {
            alert("Still working ..");
        }
    }
</script>

<?php
    if (isset($_POST['location'])) {
        echo "Location was set";
    }
?>

Now, in my HTML I have multiple checkbox options with the name = "location[]". Besides, the web site is working fine with the traditional page reload technique in which the form submits the values to the same page via POST method.

So I am kind of sure that there is nothing wrong at the HTML front. I am awaiting a solution.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1037

Answers (1)

Ram Sharma
Ram Sharma

Reputation: 8809

If you want get data as post then you should use:

serializeArray() instead of serialize()

Because serializeArray() creates an array which is not a JSON array. I suggest you to change it in your code and try to access the data as $_POST.

Upvotes: 1

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