Question

Greetings Stackoverflow

How do I set the php $_GET[] array from Jquery? I have a string looking simmilar to this: $sample_string = "Hi there, this text contains space and the character: &";. I also have a variable containing the name of the destination: $saveAs = "SomeVariable";. In PHP it would look following: $_GET["$SomeVariable"] = $sample_string;.

How do I do this in Jquery?

Thanks in advance, Rasmus

Answer 1

If you’re using jQuery, you’ll have to set up an AJAX request on the client side that sends a GET request to the server. You can then pull the data you supplied in the request from the $_GET[] array on the server side.

$(function() {
    var data =  { 
        sample_string: "hi",
        saveAs: "something"
    };
    $.get('/path/to/script.php', data, function(response) {
        alert(response); // should alert "some response"
    });
});

And in script.php:

<?php
$sample = $_GET['sample_string']; // == "hi"
$saveAs = $_GET['saveAs']; // == "something"
// do work
echo "some response";
?>