Data sent from Ajax to codeigniter controller - php

Question

I'm trying to send a username from the view to the controller through Ajax like this :
$('#exampleFormControlSelect1').change(function(){
var username =$('#exampleFormControlSelect1').val();
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
dataType: "json",
url: "Panier/loadPanier",
data: {username: username},
success: function(result){
$("#tbodyid").empty();
var data1 = JSON.parse(result);
console.log(data1) ;
},
});
});
and I try to use the sent value to do some work:
public function loadPanier()
{
$res = [];
$username = $this->input->post('username');
$panier_data = $this->model_panier->getPanierData($username);
foreach ($panier_data as $k => $v) {
$idPiece = $v['idPiece'];
$qte = $v['quantity'];
$piece_data = (array)$this->model_catalogue->getDetail($idPiece);
$price = (int)$piece_data['Unit Price'];
$montant = $qte * $price;
array_push($res, array(
'idPiece' => $idPiece,
'Description' => $piece_data['Description'],
'qte' => $qte,
'prix HT' => round($piece_data['Unit Price'], 3),
'montant' => $montant
));
}
return $res;
}
In my URL I'm getting this error :
Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
but here's what I'm noticing by doing var_dump($username):
C:\wamp64\www\PortalDealer\application\controllers\Panier.php:66:null
So my data is not passing!
Can you help me with this?
EDIT
showcase the result of this part of the code :
var_dump($_REQUEST);
$res = [];
$username = $this->input->post('username');
var_dump($username);
$panier_data = $this->model_panier->getPanierData($username);
var_dump($panier_data);

Answer 1

The below code should send your data to Panier/loadPanier/.
$('#exampleFormControlSelect1').change(function(){
var val1 =$('#exampleFormControlSelect1').val();
$.ajax({
method: "POST",
url: "Panier/loadPanier/",
data: { username: val1}
}).done(function( result ) {
$("#tbodyid").empty();
var data1 = JSON.parse(result);
console.log(data1) ;
});
});
You were seeing null every time you did var_dump() because you were trying to load the page independently. The page will only give you the POST value if you are going to the page thru the form, in this case, the form is javascript. When you load a page with POST method in javascript, the response is sent to the same page with ajax so you can work with your code without having to refresh the page.
Also: You cannot return data to javascript. You have to print it out to client side so that your javascript's JSON parser can read it. Therefore, instead of return $res; :
echo json_encode($res);