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jord49
jord49

Reputation: 582

AJAX post datastring getting cut off

I am trying to post an email address using ajax to php and every time I send the email address variable gets cut off, so it is sent to the php as '[email protected]' for example. I have tried doing toString and escape but nothing seems to work.

Thanks.

 function postEmail(){

     var checkEmail = "[email protected]";
     var dataString = 'checkEmail1='+ checkEmail;

     // AJAX Code To Submit Form.
     $.ajax({
     type: "POST",
     url: "myfile.php",
     data: dataString,
     cache: false,
     success: function(result){

     alert(result);
     } 
     });
  }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1415

Answers (2)

Benjamin Ray
Benjamin Ray

Reputation: 1870

This is the recommended way to build your jQuery AJAX request data:

var dataString = {checkEmail1: checkEmail};

See the examples in the documentation.

It is especially useful when you are posting multiple values, such as this:

var data = {
    something1 : yourVariable1,
    something2 : yourVariable2,
    something3 : 'hardcodedvalue'
}

I much prefer this over doing manual string concatenation and individual encoding of the data like you are doing.

Upvotes: 0

jord49
jord49

Reputation: 582

Shortly after posting this, after trying for ages, I got it working.

I used encodeURIComponent and didn't even need to decode it the other end:

 var checkEmail = "[email protected]";
 checkEmail = encodeURIComponent(checkEmail); //added this in
 var dataString = 'checkEmail1='+ checkEmail;

Upvotes: 2

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