Form submit with AJAX passing form data to PHP without page refresh
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script>
$(function () {
$('form').bind('click', function (event) {
// using this page stop being refreshing
event.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'post.php',
data: $('form').serialize(),
success: function () {
alert('form was submitted');
}
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input name="time" value="00:00:00.00"><br>
<input name="date" value="0000-00-00"><br>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
PHP
<?php
if(isset($_POST["date"]) || isset($_POST["time"])) {
$time="";
$date="";
if(isset($_POST['time'])){$time=$_POST['time']}
if(isset($_POST['date'])){$date=$_POST['date']}
echo $time."<br>";
echo $date;
}
?>
JS Code
$("#submit").click(function() {
//get input field values
var name = $('#name').val();
var email = $('#email').val();
var message = $('#comment').val();
var flag = true;
/********validate all our form fields***********/
/* Name field validation */
if(name==""){
$('#name').css('border-color','red');
flag = false;
}
/* email field validation */
if(email==""){
$('#email').css('border-color','red');
flag = false;
}
/* message field validation */
if(message=="") {
$('#comment').css('border-color','red');
flag = false;
}
/********Validation end here ****/
/* If all are ok then we send ajax request to email_send.php *******/
if(flag)
{
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: "email_send.php",
dataType: 'json',
data: 'username='+name+'&useremail='+email+'&message='+message,
beforeSend: function() {
$('#submit').attr('disabled', true);
$('#submit').after('<span class="wait"> <img src="image/loading.gif" alt="" /></span>');
},
complete: function() {
$('#submit').attr('disabled', false);
$('.wait').remove();
},
success: function(data)
{
if(data.type == 'error')
{
output = '<div class="error">'+data.text+'</div>';
}else{
output = '<div class="success">'+data.text+'</div>';
$('input[type=text]').val('');
$('#contactform textarea').val('');
}
$("#result").hide().html(output).slideDown();
}
});
}
});
//reset previously set border colors and hide all message on .keyup()
$("#contactform input, #contactform textarea").keyup(function() {
$("#contactform input, #contactform textarea").css('border-color','');
$("#result").slideUp();
});
HTML Form
<div class="cover">
<div id="result"></div>
<div id="contactform">
<p class="contact"><label for="name">Name</label></p>
<input id="name" name="name" placeholder="Yourname" type="text">
<p class="contact"><label for="email">Email</label></p>
<input id="email" name="email" placeholder="[email protected]" type="text">
<p class="contact"><label for="comment">Your Message</label></p>
<textarea name="comment" id="comment" tabindex="4"></textarea> <br>
<input name="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Send Mail" type="submit" style="width:200px;">
</div>
PHP Code
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
//check if its an ajax request, exit if not
if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) AND strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) != 'xmlhttprequest') {
//exit script outputting json data
$output = json_encode(
array(
'type' => 'error',
'text' => 'Request must come from Ajax'
));
die($output);
}
//check $_POST vars are set, exit if any missing
if (!isset($_POST["username"]) || !isset($_POST["useremail"]) || !isset($_POST["message"])) {
$output = json_encode(array('type' => 'error', 'text' => 'Input fields are empty!'));
die($output);
}
//Sanitize input data using PHP filter_var().
$username = filter_var(trim($_POST["username"]), FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$useremail = filter_var(trim($_POST["useremail"]), FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$message = filter_var(trim($_POST["message"]), FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
//additional php validation
if (strlen($username) < 4) { // If length is less than 4 it will throw an HTTP error.
$output = json_encode(array('type' => 'error', 'text' => 'Name is too short!'));
die($output);
}
if (!filter_var($useremail, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { //email validation
$output = json_encode(array('type' => 'error', 'text' => 'Please enter a valid email!'));
die($output);
}
if (strlen($message) < 5) { //check emtpy message
$output = json_encode(array('type' => 'error', 'text' => 'Too short message!'));
die($output);
}
$to = "[email protected]"; //Replace with recipient email address
//proceed with PHP email.
$headers = 'From: ' . $useremail . '' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . $useremail . '' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$sentMail = @mail($to, $subject, $message . ' -' . $username, $headers);
//$sentMail = true;
if (!$sentMail) {
$output = json_encode(array('type' => 'error', 'text' => 'Could not send mail! Please contact administrator.'));
die($output);
} else {
$output = json_encode(array('type' => 'message', 'text' => 'Hi ' . $username . ' Thank you for your email'));
die($output);
}
This page has a simpler example http://wearecoders.net/submit-form-without-page-refresh-with-php-and-ajax/
Here is a nice plugin for jQuery that submits forms via ajax:
http://malsup.com/jquery/form/
its as simple as:
<script src="http://malsup.github.com/jquery.form.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#myForm').ajaxForm(function() {
alert('form was submitted');
});
});
</script>
It uses the forms action for the post location. Not that you can't achieve this with your own code but this plugin has worked very nicely for me!
The form is submitting after the ajax request.
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script>
$(function () {
$('form').on('submit', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'post.php',
data: $('form').serialize(),
success: function () {
alert('form was submitted');
}
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input name="time" value="00:00:00.00"><br>
<input name="date" value="0000-00-00"><br>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>