i'm trying to make an ajax call with jquery, it seems to be working, but i cant get it to populate the result div.
Heres the JS code:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$(document).on('change', '#flip-1', function(){
var datastring = $("#some-form").serialize();
$.ajax
({
type: "POST",
url: "test.php",
data: datastring,
dataType: 'html',
complete: function(data) {
$('#results').html (data);
}
});
});
});
</script>
<form id="some-form">
<label for="flip-1">Flip toggle switch:</label>
<select id="flip-1" name="flip-1" data-role="flipswitch">
<option value="off">Off</option>
<option value="on">On</option>
</select>
</form>
<div id="results">Loading users...</div>
and here is the PHP code:
<?php
if ($_POST['flip-1'] == 'on') {
echo 'oh is on!';
} elseif ($_POST['flip-1'] == 'off') {
echo 'no, its not on';
}
?>
this is what the chrome "inspect element" debugger say about headers:
Request URL:http://localhost/smart_home/test.php
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 OK
Request Headers
POST /smart_home/test.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 9
Accept: text/html, */*; q=0.01
Origin: http://localhost
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.117 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Referer: http://localhost/smart_home/index.php
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: sv-SE,sv;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Form Data
flip-1=on
Response Headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:58:08 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.5.6
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.6
Content-Length: 20
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
And this is what the response tab says: when the button changes to the on position:
oh is on!
when changed to "off"
no, its not on
does anyone have any ideas?
thanks!
The complete callback doesn't receive the response data directly (The first parameter is a jqXHR object). It's generally simpler to use the success or .done() callbacks instead:
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "test.php",
data: datastring,
dataType: 'html',
success: function (data) {
$('#results').html(data);
}
});
Or
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "test.php",
data: datastring,
dataType: 'html'
}).done(function (data) {
$('#results').html(data);
});