Question

I’m trying to use jQuery to send an input to be processed on another page but I’m having some trouble getting it to work.

When I open up the network console I can see a GET method set to common_functions, but there’s no variables attached to it. I’m getting this

http://localhost/project/common_functions.php

instead of something like

http://localhost/project/common_functions.php?name=abcdef

Here’s my HTML. It’s fine as far as I know because I get an alert from the function receiving the input

<form method="post">
<table>
<tr><td>Project Name</td><td><input type = "textbox" name="project_name" id = "project_name" onkeyup = "get_name(this.value);" /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Project Description</td><td><input type = "textbox" name="project_name" id = "project_description" onkeyup = "get_description(this.value);"/></td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit_project"></td></tr>
</table>
</form> 

Here’s the jQuery. I’m attempting to send a GET request.

function get_name(name){
    var project_name = name;
    $.get('common_functions.php', function(name) {
        alert(project_name); //this displays the name
        $('#project_name').html(name);
    });
}

When I have just this I get an alert, so I know it’s at least acknowledging the onkeyup.

Answer 1

You are not sending any data. You can either append the data to the script name or send it as key – value pairs:

$.get('common_functions.php', {'project_name': name}, function(data) {

And I would not use the same variable name in the callback function, that only leads to confusion.