I have the following HTML code:
<form method="post" action="the_file.php" id="the-form">
<input type="text" name="the_input" value="<?php if ( isset( $_POST['the_input'] ) echo $_POST['the_input]; ?>">
<button type="submit" name="eat_something" value="TRUE">Eating</button>
<button type="submit" name="eat_something" value="FALSE">Don't Eat</button>
</form>
<textarea id="result"></textarea>
Followed by this JS:
$('#the-form').bind('submit', submitForm);
function submitForm(evt) {
jQuery.post(
$(this).attr('action'),
$(this).serialize(),
function(data) {
$('#result').empty().append(data).slideDown();
});
evt.preventDefault();
}
I also have a PHP script that receives the $_POST value from the input on submit and runs a conditions to test which submit button was clicked.
Like this:
$input = $_POST['the_input'];
$eating = $_POST['eat_something'];
if ( $eating == 'TRUE' ) {
// Do some eating...
} else {
// Don't you dare...
}
If I don't use the jQuery.post() function the submit values from the button are posted. However, for some reason, I can't manage to pass the button value to PHP $_POST with the jQuery.post() function. If I don't use jQuery.post() the output doesn't get appended to the textarea but rather in a text format on a separate page, like a document. I've also tried calling the submit function on the button $('button[type=submit]').bind('submit', submitForm);
but this doesn't solve my problem either.
Thanks in advance for you help.
Simplest answer would be:
Of course, this won't give exactly what you're looking for.
You can also do something like this:
Change the buttons to this (change w/your form names)..
The Javascript function and the PHP are fine.
Thanks!
@leo
You forget signle quote and
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inthe_name
input.and for getting form button pressed value you need to append it value manually to serialize.
Example
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