Question

I’m trying to make this call to send data to the server:

$.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: "/videos"
   data: { title = oembed.title }
});

However, this doesn’t seem to work. I make a call to the Embedly API like so:

$('a.oembed').embedly({maxWidth:300,'method':'replace'}).bind('embedly-oembed', function(e, oembed){ 
    });

so that I have access to the dynamically generated hash oembed, and I want to save oembed.title. I tried the $.ajax() call both outside and within the embedly call, and it seems to prevent the entire call to embedly from working. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try

$.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: "/videos",
   data: { title: oembed.title }
});

Also I don’t see any handling of the response. Perhaps you would like to add a success handler:

$.ajax({
       type: "POST",
       url: "/videos",
       data: { title: oembed.title },
       success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
         /* your code here - check http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/ */
       }
 });