Question

I’m using the $.post method to post a value through to a PHP page for processing after using serialize and I replaced the serialize utility with a more specific element:

$("button").click(function(event) {
    $.post(
        "php/index.php",
        { seq: $("seq").val(); },
        function(data, status) {
            $('.stage').html(data);
        }
    );
});

However the data doesn’t get sent and it appears in the URLlike this:

xxx.co.uk/?seq=123456

Very similar to a get method. How can I adjust this to send it to a PHP page with the value from the form element and to receive it as:

$_POST['seq'];

Help would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this:

 $("button").click(function(event) {
  $.post(
    "php/index.php",
    { seq: $("#seq").val() }, // or class $(".seq").val()
    function(data, status) {
        $('.stage').html(data);
    }
  );
});