Question

first of all sorry im a beginner.

Im making a small shoutbox with jquery just for practies

I would like to place the shoutbox text to a txt file with ajax.

but my problem is i wont insert it to the txt

the ajax

<script>
$('#submit').click(function() {

    var shout_text = $("input#shout_text").val();

    var shout = $.ajax({
          type: 'POST',
          url: "shout.txt",
          data: shout_text,
          //success: success,
          dataType: "text",

});



});
</script>

could please someone point out what im doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try this one

<script>
$('#submit').click(function() {

    var shout_text = $("input#shout_text").val();

    var shout = $.ajax({
          type: 'POST',
          url: "shout.php",
          data: {message:shout_text},
          success: function(){ 

          }
});



});
</script>

you have to input $_POST[‘message’] into text file in your server-side (if you use PHP)

You can’t just “send” text to your text file