Question

I am trying to post data to a script on my own server through the jQuery $.ajax function in the following way:

var data = {};
var date = new Date();
data.selectedDate = selectedDate;

$.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "http://www.url.com/somescript.php",
        dataType: 'json',
        data: this.data,
        async: false,
    })

If I remove the data parameter the script gets called. Can any one explain what’s going wrong?

Answer 1

Some one suggested this earlier but his post seems to have been deleted. JSON ecoding the data prior to posting fixed the problem. I’m not sure why I suddenly need to do this as I have posted to this server before with out json encoding my data, maybe it’s cause I’m working on a public wifi.

JSON.stringify(this.data)

Thanks to every one for the help.