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jQuery AJAX Call to PHP Script with JSON Return
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| <div class="the-return"> | |
| [HTML is replaced when successful.] | |
| </div> |
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| <script type="text/javascript"> | |
| $("document").ready(function(){ | |
| $(".js-ajax-php-json").submit(function(){ | |
| var data = { | |
| "action": "test" | |
| }; | |
| data = $(this).serialize() + "&" + $.param(data); | |
| $.ajax({ | |
| type: "POST", | |
| dataType: "json", | |
| url: "response.php", //Relative or absolute path to response.php file | |
| data: data, | |
| success: function(data) { | |
| $(".the-return").html( | |
| "Favorite beverage: " + data["favorite_beverage"] + "<br />Favorite restaurant: " + data["favorite_restaurant"] + "<br />Gender: " + data["gender"] + "<br />JSON: " + data["json"] | |
| ); | |
| alert("Form submitted successfully.\nReturned json: " + data["json"]); | |
| } | |
| }); | |
| return false; | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| </script> |
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| <!--Put the following in the <head>--> | |
| <script type="text/javascript"> | |
| $("document").ready(function(){ | |
| $(".js-ajax-php-json").submit(function(){ | |
| var data = { | |
| "action": "test" | |
| }; | |
| data = $(this).serialize() + "&" + $.param(data); | |
| $.ajax({ | |
| type: "POST", | |
| dataType: "json", | |
| url: "response.php", //Relative or absolute path to response.php file | |
| data: data, | |
| success: function(data) { | |
| $(".the-return").html( | |
| "Favorite beverage: " + data["favorite_beverage"] + "<br />Favorite restaurant: " + data["favorite_restaurant"] + "<br />Gender: " + data["gender"] + "<br />JSON: " + data["json"] | |
| ); | |
| alert("Form submitted successfully.\nReturned json: " + data["json"]); | |
| } | |
| }); | |
| return false; | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| </script> | |
| <!--Put the following in the <body>--> | |
| <form action="return.php" class="js-ajax-php-json" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"> | |
| <input type="text" name="favorite_restaurant" value="" placeholder="Favorite restaurant" /> | |
| <input type="text" name="favorite_beverage" value="" placeholder="Favorite beverage" /> | |
| <select name="gender"> | |
| <option value="male">Male</option> | |
| <option value="female">Female</option> | |
| </select> | |
| <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit form" /> | |
| </form> | |
| <div class="the-return"> | |
| [HTML is replaced when successful.] | |
| </div> |
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| <form action="return.php" class="js-ajax-php-json" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"> | |
| <input type="text" name="favorite_restaurant" value="" placeholder="Favorite restaurant" /> | |
| <input type="text" name="favorite_beverage" value="" placeholder="Favorite beverage" /> | |
| <select name="gender"> | |
| <option value="male">Male</option> | |
| <option value="female">Female</option> | |
| </select> | |
| <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit form" /> | |
| </form> |
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| <?php | |
| if (is_ajax()) { | |
| if (isset($_POST["action"]) && !empty($_POST["action"])) { //Checks if action value exists | |
| $action = $_POST["action"]; | |
| switch($action) { //Switch case for value of action | |
| case "test": test_function(); break; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| //Function to check if the request is an AJAX request | |
| function is_ajax() { | |
| return isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest'; | |
| } | |
| function test_function(){ | |
| $return = $_POST; | |
| //Do what you need to do with the info. The following are some examples. | |
| //if ($return["favorite_beverage"] == ""){ | |
| // $return["favorite_beverage"] = "Coke"; | |
| //} | |
| //$return["favorite_restaurant"] = "McDonald's"; | |
| $return["json"] = json_encode($return); | |
| echo json_encode($return); | |
| } | |
| ?> |
just remove |action="return.php"| from form's markup as it doesn't effect anything (because of "return false;" in "$(".js-ajax-php-json").submit(function(){")
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Here is a git repository ( https://github.com/pavanyogi/return-json-response-to-ajax-call-php ), which I forked from the above gist with minimum code and simplified instructions. Feel free to use and suggestions (if you have any).