Post variable not passing - php

Question

Any idea why this doesn't work? I have tried to see if the button clicked actually works with alerts, had alerts as well as before and after the ajax code and they both worked.
var selectedCheckboxes = "12421";
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$(".editArticle").on("click",function(){
$.ajax({
url: "test.php",
type: "POST",
data: { selectedCheckboxes: "selectedCheckboxes" },
success: function(response){
//do action
},
error: function(){
// do action
}
});
});
});
the link:
Edit
test.php
<?php
echo $_POST["selectedCheckboxes"];
?>

Answer 1

Try this instead:
Edit
If you want the output of the php in your page you have to do something like this in your javascsript
$(".editArticle").on("click",function(){
$.ajax({
url: "test.php",
type: "POST",
data: { selectedCheckboxes: selectedCheckboxes },
success: function(response){
$("body").html(response);
},
error: function(){
// do action
}
});
});
You may need to change the "body" tag.. or not
depends on what the teste.php returns
Well, if you don't want the output to be placed inside your current page html, maybe a different aproach would be better.
Maybe there are better answers but you could try something like:
<form method="post" action="test.php" onsubmit="javascript:$('#selectedCheckboxes').val(selectedCheckboxes);">
<input type="hidden" value="" name="selectedCheckboxes" id="selectedCheckboxes">
<input type="submit" value="Edit">
</form>
You would have to style the submit input
Does the idea help? No ajax though.

Answer 2

The reason you're not seeing the AJAX reqeust go through is because when the you click on the anchor tag, the browser is performing the default action of navigating to 'test.php', which cancels the AJAX call. Since you are simply GET'ing that page, and not POST'ing to it, there is nothing in $_POST. In order to prevent this default action, either use a span instead of an a tag (recommended), or prevent the default action, doing something like this:
Edit

Answer 3

If I get you right, you want to pass selectedCheckboxes as JSON to the Server. In this case you need to actually pass your selectedCheckboxes variable to the Server.
Like this:
$.ajax({
url: "test.php",
type: "POST",
data: selectedCheckboxes,
success: function(response){
//do action
},
error: function(){
// do action
}
});
The problem with your code is that you passed a new JSONObject containing a String that contains "selectedCheckboxes". You did not pass the actual variable.

Answer 4

Put a return false; after ajax call

Answer 5

You try to pass a variable selectedCheckboxes but unfortunately with double ("") quotes you passing a string as selectedCheckboxes
Use below code
var selectedCheckboxes = "12421";
var dataObject = {};
data[selectedCheckboxes] = 1;
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$(".editArticle").on("click",function(){
$.ajax({
url: "test.php",
type: "POST",
data: dataObject ,
success: function(response){
//do action
},
error: function(){
// do action
}
});
});
});
Hope this helps...