Question

Currently, I have this line:

$.post("submitmail.php", $("#contactform").serialize(), recvMailStatus);

I’m new to jQuery so this may be an absurdly stupid question.
But I’m making this project work with or without javascript, so if a form is submitted with this function, I want submitmail.php to just echo whether or not it was successful. If the form just submits and redirects to submitmail.php, I want it to display something other than a white screen with black text saying “mail sent successfully.” To do this I figured I would just post an extra variable “fromjs” or something so that the page can render itself accordingly. What’s the best way to do that?

Answer 1

You may append it to the address you are posting to:

$.post(
    "submitmail.php?formjs=some_value", 
    $("#contactform").serialize(), 
    recvMailStatus
);

or:

$.post(
    "submitmail.php", 
    $("#contactform").serialize() + '&formjs=some_value', 
    recvMailStatus
);