Question

I am currently working on a php/html/javascript project. I have a form where when the user presses the submit button, it should run a javascript function and then afterwards post to a php page to process the data that was submitted in the form.

I have the form run a javascript method as below

<form class="form" id="addImageForm" name="addImageForm" action="javascript:validateAddImage();" method="post">

The method validates the form, calls another method and then it submits the form using document.myForm.submit();

How do I get it to submit the form to another php page to process the data including upload selected files.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Answer 1

Set yout ‘action’ parameter to your PHP script, and do any javascript procesing in a javascript event.

<form class="form" id="addImageForm" name="addImageForm" action="processing.php" method="post" onsubmit="return validateAddImage();">

Then in your js validation, return ‘true’ if everything’s fine, or ‘false’ if not. Returning ‘true’ means ‘continue with the submit process and send over data to processing.php