I'm new in PHP/jquery
I would like to ask how to send json data from a form field like (name, age, etc) with ajax in a json format. Sadly I can't found any relevant information about this it's even possible to do it dynamically? Google searches only gives back answers like build up the data manually. like: name: X Y
, age: 32
, and so on.
Is there anyway to do that?
Thanks for the help!
Edit:
<form action="test.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Age: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
FavColor: <input type="text" name="favc"><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
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The accepted answer here indeed makes a json from a form, but the json contents is really a string with url-encoded contents.
To make a more realistic json POST, use some solution from Serialize form data to JSON to make formToJson
function and add contentType: 'application/json;charset=UTF-8'
to the jQuery ajax call parameters.
$.ajax({
url: 'test.php',
type: "POST",
dataType: 'json',
data: formToJson($("form")),
contentType: 'application/json;charset=UTF-8',
...
})
You can use serialize()
like this:
$.ajax({
cache: false,
url: 'test.php',
data: $('form').serialize(),
datatype: 'json',
success: function(data) {
}
});
Sending data from formfields back to the server (php) is usualy done by the POST method which can be found back in the superglobal array $_POST inside PHP. There is no need to transform it to JSON before you send it to the server. Little example:
<?php
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_POST);
}
?>
<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="email" value="[email protected]" />
<button type="submit">Send!</button>
With AJAX you are able to do exactly the same thing, only without page refresh.
Source: Stackoverflow.com