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TIAN TIAN
TIAN TIAN

Reputation: 9

How to pass ajax variable to another page?

I have no idea how to pass variable to another page using ajax. I wish to get data from Page1 and echo in Page2. Here is my code:

Page 1

<?=
   formDropdown('employeeName', 'employeeName', 'Employee Name:', $empName,
   isset($employeeName) ? '' : $hiddenV , 'All', '', 'onchange="employeeNameChange(this.value)"', 'form-control', '<br>');
?>

<script type="text/javascript">
function employeeNameChange(str) {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "indexPage.php",
        data: "en=" + str,
        success: function(data){
        }
    });
}
</script>

Page 2

$emp_name = $_POST['en'];
echo "Employee Name is ". $_POST['en'] ;

When I echo the message, output is "Employee Name is ". Why is that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 94

Answers (1)

Carl Binalla
Carl Binalla

Reputation: 5401

Assuming that the variable is defined, you can try this to check if it really contains something

function employeeNameChange(str) {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "indexPage.php",
        data: "en=" + str,
        dataType:"text",
        success: function(data){
            alert(data);
        },
        error:function(xhr, status, error){
            alert(error);
        }
    });
}

And in indexPage.php

if(isset($_POST['en'])){
    echo $_POST['en'];
}

This should alert the value of str, or alert an error

Upvotes: 2

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