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Lewis H
Lewis H

Reputation: 59

How to use $.get "Additional Data" in PHP-side

$.get ("php/checkuser.php", {username : "stackexchange"}, function(data){
    console.log(data)
});

How do I retrieve/handle the "username" in the PHP file? as far as I can tell it isn't stored in a variable and there is no further documentation on the relevant jQuery website.

I am clearly lacking some simple knowledge here.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 43

Answers (1)

wandering-geek
wandering-geek

Reputation: 1378

The jQuery get() method is used to send a HTTP GET request.

So when this method executes, the URL fired is of the below form

http://example.com/checkuser.php?username=stackexchange

Here "username" is what we would call a query parameter. To get the value of a GET query parameter in PHP, you would need to use the $_GET superglobal, which is an associative array.

So, to access the value of the username GET param, you would need to do something like the below

$username = $_GET["username"];

That's pretty much it. :-)

Upvotes: 2

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