Question

I’m writing a small function to get the URL of an image and save to locally to server.

Here’s the AJAX call (confirmed it’s sending the correct URL to “getimdbpic.php” with firebug)

$.get("getimdbpic.php", { posterURL: data.Poster, movieTitle: data.Title },
function(picData){
alert("Data Loaded: " + picData);
});

The problem I’m having is with my PHP.

$url = $_GET['posterURL'];
$title = $_GET['movieTitle'];
file_put_contents($img, file_get_contents($url));

I simply can’t get the values that are being passed. The file_put_contents throws an error stating that the “File name cannot be empty”. (referring to $url being empty)

Edit: Fixed the casing, still not receiving values.

Answer 1

Make sure you’re using the latest JQuery. I saw a very bizarre bug like regarding values not getting sent that was fixed by an upgrade.

EDIT: Might want to try a fallback to standard $.ajax() since $.get() is just a wrapper around it:

$.ajax({
  url: "getimdbpic.php", 
  data: { posterURL: data.Poster, movieTitle: data.Title },
  type: 'GET', // this is default, but just in case
  success: function(picData){
    alert("Data Loaded: " + picData);
  }
});