Question

I’m using a fancybox modal to display comments from a news page pulled from a mysql database. The modal also has a section that allows users to post new comments. I’m using jquery to send the form information to another script for processing.

Instead of returning the successful message, it’s posting the information and redirecting to the page instead of displaying the information in the modal.

Here’s the jquery that should cause this to happen:

$(document).ready(function(){ 
$("#submit").click(function() {
/* Set some vars */
                        var messageText = $("textarea#message").val();
                        var newsID = $("hidden#newsid").val();


                        $.post('/process/newmsg.php',
                            { message : messageText, newsid: newsID },
                            function(data) {
                                $("#fancybox_content").before(data);
                            }
                        );



});

});

Any idea what I’m missing here?

Answer 1

this is not a valid selector: $(“hidden#newsid”). So, “newsID” is empty and the post parameters give syntax error

{ message : messageText, newsid: },