Question

I am working on submitting values into a database through AJAX. It currently uses JQuery Ajax object.My Ajax code basically looks like this:

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var genre = form.new_album_genre.value;
form.new_album_genre.value=””;

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    data: "genre="+genre+"&app="+app,
    url: 'apps/PVElectronicPressKitAdmin/ajax_add_album_genre.php',
    success: function(data) {
    $('#'+divID).html(data);

}
});

In short, it gets a value from a form and then submits the data through a post. Where it fails if the genre is something like R&B. The & symbol is not sumbitting and only the R is. So how do I submit values through AJAX including &, + and = ?

Answer 1

You need to encodeURIComponent to deal with characters which have special meaning in URIs.

(Or pass an object containing key/value pairs to jQuery instead of the query string String you have now)