Question

I understand there is a method send for xmlHttpRequest objects, but I’ve been working on this site all day and I’m unable to find any halfway decent tutorials on the subject and my brain feels like mush. Ajax is hard.

What I’m trying to do is send data from one Javascript file back to a PHP script on the server, where the data is simply a string and a small number. Is this possible? Why can’t I find a good article on the subject?

tl;dr How do I use the send method to pass a string and a number from a javascript file to a php file?

Answer 1

Why don’t you user jQuery or similar library?

Sending a variables with jQuery will be simple as that:

$.post("save.php", { name: "John", time: "2pm" } );

In your save.php file you can handle POST variables as you wish:

$name = $_POST["name"];
$time = $_POST["time"];

You can check it out: http://jquery.com/

I think you are wasting your time trying to make self made methods …