Question

I’m trying to post some data to a function that will do a mysql insert. Nothing fancy about that. but I can get the thing to work and my question is where should I be telling jQuery to post to and will it honor php includes?

This is what I have

include_once 'modules/interviews/helper.php';

if($link == 'my_interviews'){
   include_once 'modules/interviews/my_interviews.php';
} elseif($link == 'interview_panel'){
   include_once 'modules/interviews/interview_panel.php';
}

Above is my index.php, which loads in the page where the form is submitted

$('.addinote').click(function() {

var app = $(this).attr("data-app"),
user = $(this).attr("data-subi"),
txt = $('#' + app).val();

if(txt === ''){
alert('Whoops, did you enter something?');
}else{
   var  params = {};
   params['user_id'] = user;
   params['app_id'] = app;
   params['inote'] = txt;
   params['subinote'] = '1';

   $.post('http://localhost/gem/modules/interviews/index.php', params,            
       function(data){
           if(data){

           }
           else{
              alert('Whoops, there was a problem, please try again!');
           }
    });
}

helper.php contains this…

if(isset($_POST['subinote'])){


    $apply->inote();

} 

and the class contains this….

function inote(){

$query = "INSERT INTO `app_notes` (`user_id`, `application_id`, `inote`) 
          VALUES ('{$_POST['user_id']}', '{$_POST['app_id']}', 
          '{$_POST['inote']}')";    

$GLOBALS['DB']->insertQuery($query);

}

Where should I be posting to?

Answer 1

You should be posting to index.php if this is the one reading the $_POST variable.

Also you should be using relative url’s for example if helper.php is in the same directory as your html file use ./index.php or simply index.php as your post url. I prefer the former as it states explicitly what you intended.