Question

I’m submitting data from pagex.php to pagey.php via jQuery post.

pagex.php contains

$('#btn').click(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var x = 'variable1';
        var y = 'variable2';
        $.post("/pagey.php", { var1: x, var2: y}, function(data) {});
    });

pagey.php contains

<form action=....>
<input type="text" name="x" value="<?php echo $_POST['var1'] ?>" />
<input type="text" name="y" value="<?php echo $_POST['var2'] ?>" />
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />
<script type="text/javascript">$('#submit').trigger('click')</script>

So basically when i post the values from pagex.php to pagey.php, i want to automatically submit the form on pagey.php . The jQuery line at the end of pagey.php will trigger an automatic click to the submit button. However jQuery is not triggering the submit click. it works if i access paygey.php directly (i tried it with pre defined variables) but not by doing $.post from pagex. I was assuming that by using $.post from pagex, pagey should automatically get the values and run the jQuery submit. What is the problem here.

Answer 1

JavaScript (which powers jQuery) is not run on the server, it’s run from your users browser. So from my understanding, in order to run that little bit of script you will have to actually send your users to pagey.php