AJAX call not sending data to PHP script - php

I have tried to run an AJAX call within a PHP file, which sends data to another PHP file on the server that is taken from an html input when I press the submit button. Unfortunately when I click on the button, nothing happens, not even in the console. I have tried to debug the issue by creating a window.alert() of the input within the AJAX call, but it somehow shows a certain "object Object" result in the alert box. I have tried to change the path to see if the file is being detected or not, but it seems it is being detected as when I deliberately add a wrong path it throws a 404, and even tried to add echo calls to the PHP file being called but nothing appears. The only issue I can really think of now is something wrong with my implementation, but I'm not sure what it is.
Update: I have tried looking up certain questions such as here and here, but they don't work for me
Code from where the AJAX calls are being made:
<?php
require "../../../AutoLoader.php";
use mvcApplication\core\controllers\ControllerFactory;
?>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#submit').click(function () {
$.ajax({
url: '../app/views/generic/deletefunc.php',
type: 'GET',
data: {
Id: $('#Id'),
value: "0"
},
processData: false
});
});
});
</script>
<br>
<br>
<center>
<h3>Enter Teacher ID:</h3><input type="text" id="Id"
placeholder="Input ID here"/>
<br>
<button class="col-sm-4" id="submit">Submit</button>
</center>
<br>
deletefunc.php (code where the data should be received)
<?php
require_once '../../../AutoLoader.php';
use mvcApplication\core\controllers\ControllerFactory;
function deleteTeacher($a)
{
echo $a;
$entity = ControllerFactory::initTeacherC();
$entity->delete($a);
}
function deleteStudent($a)
{
echo $a;
/*$entity = ControllerFactory::initStudentC();
$entity->delete($data);*/
}
function deleteCourse($a)
{
echo $a;
/*$entity = ControllerFactory::initCourseC();
$entity->delete($data);*/
}
if (isset($_GET['Id']) && isset($_GET['value'])) {
switch ($_GET['value']) {
case "0":
deleteTeacher($_GET['Id']);
break;
case "1":
deleteStudent($_GET['Id']);
break;
case "3":
deleteCourse($_GET['Id']);
break;
}
}

According to ajax docs http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/;
processData (default: true) Type: Boolean By default, data passed in
to the data option as an object (technically, anything other than a
string) will be processed and transformed into a query string, fitting
to the default content-type "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
I think you have to set processData to True on your ajax call because you're using GET (get needs querystring, url data) or just don't set it so it would be the default which is true.

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Why is AJAX data not received by PHP?

I have the following extremely simple PHP tester:
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button id="button">send request</button>
<script>
$("#button").click(function(){
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "ajaxTest.php",
data: {userresponse: "hi"},
success: function(data){
alert(data)
analyse()
}
})
})
var analyse = function () {
<?php
if(isset($_POST["userresponse"])){
$variable = $_POST["userresponse"];
switch($variable){
case "hi":
echo 'alert("' . $variable . '")';
break;
default:
echo 'alert("LOGIC")';
}
}
?>
}
</script>
What's supposed to happen is that when I click the button, it sends the data userresponse: "hi" to the server, and then PHP receives it and alerts the value (i.e. "hi")
However, despite the fact that the file paths are correct, the AJAX send is OK in XHR, the PHP does not receive the value of the data, and the alert(data) returns the entire HTML document.
What is going on and how do I fix this?
Remove analyze() and put your php code in external file called ajaxTest.php, your code works perfect just remove your php code fron analyze and request for external this is bad practice having both in same file(header problems).
Proof:

Delay in populating session.upload_progress data

I'm trying to check the progress of files uploaded. I'm using the Kohana framework which has a Session class, but for the upload progress I'm using native PHP sessions. I'm calling session_start() in Kohana's bootstrap.php, which means session_start() will be called on every page request.
After the upload form is submitted, I wait 1 second and then begin calling a PHP file to check the upload progress using jQuery $.ajax().
The problem is that $_SESSION[$key] ($key contains the key for the upload data) isn't set on the first call to the PHP. I've tried debugging this quite a bit, and session_id() returns the correct session ID, so the session is definitely the right one and is active. I'm also waiting 1 second before checking the upload progress, so it's not a timing issue. I could fix this by continuing even if $_SESSION[$key] is not set, but the way to check if the upload is complete is when $_SESSION[$key] is unset.
The HTML form is created on-the-fly with jQuery because this is a multi-file upload. Here's the HTML for a generated form:
<form action="ajax/upload" id="form-HZbAcYFuj3" name="form-HZbAcYFuj3" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="frame-HZbAcYFuj3">
<iframe id="frame-HZbAcYFuj3" name="frame-HZbAcYFuj3"></iframe>
<input type="hidden" name="PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS" value="HZbAcYFuj3">
<input type="file" id="file-HZbAcYFuj3" name="photo" accept="image/jpeg,image/pjpeg,image/png,image/gif">
<button type="button">+ Select Photo</button>
</form>
Here's the PHP that the JavaScript calls to check the progress:
public function action_uploadprogress()
{
$id = isset($_POST['id']) ? $_POST['id'] : false;
if (!$id)
throw new Kohana_HTTP_Exception_404();
$progress = 0;
$upload_progress = false;
$key = ini_get("session.upload_progress.prefix") . $id;
if (isset($_SESSION[$key]))
$upload_progress = $_SESSION[$key];
else
exit('100');
$processed = $upload_progress['bytes_processed'];
$size = $upload_progress['content_length'];
if ($processed <= 0 || $size <= 0)
throw new Kohana_HTTP_Exception_404();
else
$progress = round(($processed / $size) * 100, 2);
echo $progress;
}
Here's the jQuery ajax() request:
this.send_request = function()
{
$.ajax(
{
url: 'ajax/uploadprogress',
type: 'post',
dataType: 'html',
data: { id: _this.id },
success:
function(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
{
if (textStatus == "success")
{
if (data < 100)
setTimeout(_this.send_request, 1000);
}
}
}
);
};
You are sending a POST called 'id' to the PHP script.
However, the documentation says that the upload progress will be available only when you send a POST with same name as session.upload_progress.name configured in php.ini.
So, in other words, if your session.upload_progress.name is set to default value (PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS), you have to change the following line, in send_request function:
Change:
data: { id: _this.id }
To:
data: { PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS: _this.id }
You also have to change the $_POST['id'] to $_POST['PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS'] or $_POST[ini_get("session.upload_progress.name")] in the PHP script (and the name of input too in case it's not default).
The upload progress will be available in the $_SESSION superglobal when an upload is in progress, and when POSTing a variable of the same name as the session.upload_progress.name INI setting is set to. When PHP detects such POST requests, it will populate an array in the $_SESSION, where the index is a concatenated value of the session.upload_progress.prefix and session.upload_progress.name INI options. The key is typically retrieved by reading these INI settings, i.e.
Source: http://php.net/manual/pt_BR/session.upload-progress.php
Lets see if I can get some of that sweet sweet bounty.. My first thought is that the $key string is not getting set properly.
Try echoing its value out and doing a print_r on the entire $_SESSION variable to keep track of things.
Now I don't see a 'success' output from action_uploadprogress() at all. I see 100 which I guess indicates done but you aren't checking for that in js. I would recommend looking into that. Might as well echo out your calculations as well. I assume its very unlikely but make sure that you are uploading files properly and are able to determine their current size without any issue.
Another issue could be with how you are handling ajax with jquery. I'm not 100% sure about this but I think the success option has been depreciated (1.5+).
From : http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "some.php",
data: { name: "John", location: "Boston" }
}).done(function( msg ) {
alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
});
The only way I've seen success being used is like this....
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: '/login/spam',
data: formData,
success: function (data) {
if (data == 'value') {
//Do stuff
}
}
});
However I could be completely wrong about this....your setup might be perfectly fine. What I want you to do is get is directly in the success/done function is
alert(data);
alert(textStatus); //if you still use it
This will tell you if you are getting a proper response from your ajax query.
I will check back a few times tonight and I'll be around tomorrow to help. Tell me if anything I said helps anything.

can't make cross browser AJAX request to work

I am doing a simple ajax request to another domain like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('.clik').click(function() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "http://sub.mydomain.com/test.php",
crossDomain: true,
dataType:"jsonp",
success: function(data) {
$('p.txt').html(data['no']);
}
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p class="clik">Halleluja</p>
<p class="txt"></p>
this is the test.php page on sub.mydomain.com
<?
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://mydomain.com');
// Begin Session
require_once('cl.session.php');
$session = new Session();
$session->start_session('test', false);
// Access Database
require_once('cl.database.php');
$login_db = new Database('user', 'pass', 'accounts', 'test');
$login_pdo = $login_db->PDO;
include "fn.check_login.php";
if(checkLogin($login_pdo) == true) {
// We start out by checking if the request has been made using AJAX
if (is_ajax()) {
echo "this is working";
} else {
echo "this is not working!";
}
} else {
echo 'You are not authorized to access this page, please login. <br/>';
}
// Function to check if the request is an AJAX request
function is_ajax() {
// BOOLEAN return if AJAX
return isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest';
}
?>
It returns a semantic issue.
Also if I simply echo some basic text:
<?
echo "Hello World!";
?>
it still returns a semantic issue.
could somebody tell me what went wrong?
Well, for a start, JSONP requests can't be POST (only GET). But I tend to assume jQuery is ignoring the invalid type. JSONP is intrinsically a GET.
Your response to it is invalid. You've told jQuery you're expecting the server to provide a JSONP response. but your responses aren't JSONP.
A JSONP response would look something like this:
callback({
"property": "value",
"anotherProperty": 42
})
...where the name of the callback (callback in the above) is taken from the query string of the request. So for instance, if the request were http://sub.mydomain.com/test.php?callback=foo, the response would use foo for the name of the callback:
foo({
"property": "value",
"anotherProperty": 42
})
jQuery will add the callback= query string parameter to the request for you automatically, and generate the corresponding function for you, which in turn calls the ajax success handler with the data passed into it.
I think you may need to use the jquery postMessage plugin (or similar if there is one). Long time since I tried it but check if you load the script from the server you wish to call (think I tried that and failed in the past but hey - its worth a bash - report back if it does).

PHP and JQuery Button trigger not working

Im currently new to PHP and JQuery after having using ASP.Net and C Sharp for the 2 years. I have this major problem in which i require some assistance in.
I have a HTML <input type="submit" id="btnWL" value="Add to Wishlist"> button. Basically when this button is pressed a table called 'wishlist' in the database is checked to see if the current product is already in a wishlist. If no the button will trigger a database save else it will return a JQuery alert pop up error message.
I having difficulty in passing 2 PHP variables: $_SESSION["username"] and $_GET["ProductId"] into this JQuery method:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#btnWL').live('click', function() {
$.post("addToWishlist.php");
});
});
</script>
As you can see this JQuery method must pass those values to an external PHP File which checks for an already exsisting record in the 'wishist' table with those details.
<?php
$WishlistDAL = new WishlistDAL();
$result = $WishlistDAL->get_ProductInWishlistById($_GET["ProductId"]);
if (isset($_POST["isPostBack"])) {
if (isset($_SESSION["username"])) {
if (isset($_GET["btnWL"])) {
//Check if ProductId is in Cart
if (mssql_num_rows($result)>0)
{
//Return an error
//Sumhow this has to trigger an alert box in the above JQuery method
}
else
{
//Write in Wishlist Table
$WishlistDAL->insert_ProductInWishlist($_GET["ProductId"], $_SESSION["username"]);
}
}
}
else
{
//Return Error
}
}
?>
Another problem I have is then displaying an alert box using the same JQuery method for any errors that where generated in the php file.
Any Ideas how I can implement this logic? Thanks in advance.
Your "$.post()" call isn't passing any parameters, and has no callback for interpreting the results:
$.post('addToWishlist.php', { username: something, password: something }, function (response) {
});
The "something" and "something" would probably come from your input fields, so:
$.post('addToWishlist.php', { username: $('#username').val(), password: $('#password').val() }, function (response) {
});
Now the callback function would interpret the response from the server:
$.post('addToWishlist.php', { username: $('#username').val(), password: $('#password').val() }, function (response) {
if (response === "FAIL") {
alert("fail");
}
else {
// ... whatever ...
}
});
Exactly what that does depends on your server code; that "FAIL" response is something I just made up as an example of course.
jQuery accepts an callback:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#btnWL').live('click', function() {
$.post("addToWishlist.php", {'isPostBack':1}, function(res){
if (res.match(/err/i)){
alert(res);
}
});
});
});
Then, in the php, just (echo('Error adding record')) for this jquery to see there's an error string in the response and pop up the error message.
Other methods would be to use json, or http status codes and $.ajaxError(function(){ alert('error adding'); });.
from what i can tell so far is you'll only need to pass in the product id in and you can do this by appending your $.post call with the value; this will pass to your php script as a query string variable. i'm not sure which php script you posted, but if you're sending your data with jquery, it's using post and not get, so you may need to make an adjustment there and the session data should be available regardless, since it's the same session.
again this is without seeing all the code and since some of it isn't labeled, it's hard to determine. another thing, i like to use $.ajax for most actions like this, you have a lot more room to define and structure, as well as create one generic ajax function to call the methods and post data, as well as make a response callback. here's the documentation for you to look into $.ajax
i hope this helps.

Jquery Ajax no response

When I try to get the response from a php file using Jquery ajax, I just get (an empty string) (Accdg. to Firebug console using console.log(data))
Here's the Html code:
<form action="test.php" method="POST" id="ajax">
<input type="text" name="field" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
Here's the Jquery code:
$('#ajax').submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
data: $(this).serialize(),
url: 'test.php',
cache: false,
success: function(data) {
alert(data);
}
});
return false;
});
And the PHP code:
if ($_POST['submit'] == "submit")
{
echo 'Got your request';
}
Just basic. What frustrates me is that it's straightforward, I've done some research and still it doesn't work. I also want it to be as simple as possible.
Please enlighten me.
Don't check to see if you're in a POST situation by checking for fieldnames. That's incorrect - you might change your client-side form names and forget to update the PHP check.
The 100% reliable method is to use:
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
echo "Got your request";
}
However, since you just want to see if the server got pinged at all by your ajax call, why not do:
<?php
echo "Got your ", $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'], " request";
Which'd just return Got your POST request or Got your GET request, etc...
As well, check your server log (or use HTTPFOX/Firebug Net tab, etc...) to see if that ajax request is actually going out and being received by the server.
The problem with the serialize() method is that it doesn't include the name of the button parameter which you use in your php script (submit=submit parameter). It doesn't do it because it doesn't know which button was clicked. This parameter is only included by the browser when you submit the form normally.
So one possibility is to manually attach this parameter as query string parameter:
url: 'test.php?submit=submit',
and in your PHP script:
if ($_GET['submit'] == "submit")
{
echo 'Got your request';
}

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