Question

I currently have a form with inputs and name attributes.

I’m able to get what I needed through jquery:

 var inputValues= $('.myForm').serialize();

if I alert(inputValues), I get what I needed, (like form GET variables: categories=examplevalue&name=examplename&email=exampleemail)

Now, I’m trying to pass it to PHP with ajax, like so (ajax.js)

            $.ajax({
                url: "myfile.php",
                type: "POST",
                data: "inputs="+inputValues
            }).done(function(data){
                alert(data);
            });

In my PHP i have this:

if(isset($_POST['inputs'])){
   echo $_POST['inputs'];
}

I assume that it would alert out bunch of variables depending on my form, but it only echo’s out the first name variable which is categories

What am i doing wrong here?

Thanks

Answer 1

serialize() generates a query string (foo=bar&baz=yikes) format that cannot be assigned to a single parameter (inputs=... in your case).

In your $.ajax call, remove inputs= and just use inputValues alone. This would allow you to get the individual variables in your form using $_POST['myvar'].