Question

Really not familiar with jQuery. Is there anyway I can pass form data to a PHP file using jQuery?

FORM:

<div id="dialog-form" title="Fill in your details!">
  <form>
<fieldset>
  <label for="name">Name</label>
  <input type="text" name="name" id="name"/>
  <label for="email">Email</label>
  <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value=""/>
  <label for="phone">Phone</label>
  <input type="phone" name="phone" id="phone" value=""/>
</fieldset>
  </form>

It’s a pop-up dialog with jQuery and gets submitted with:

$("#dialog-form").dialog({
  autoOpen: false,
  height: 450,
  width: 350,
  modal: true,
  buttons: {
    "Sumbit": function() {
    //VALIDATES FORM INFO, IF CORRECT
      if (Valid) {
        $.ajax({
          url: 'process-form.php',
          success: function (response) {
          //response is value returned from php
            $("#dialog-success").dialog({
              modal: true,
              buttons: {
                Ok: function() {
                  $(this).dialog("close");
                }
              }
            });
          }
        });
        $(this).dialog("close");
      }
    }
  }
});

What I want to do is to send the form data that the user enters into process-form.php, where it will be processed and sent as an email (which I can do). Just not to sure on the jQuery side of things. Is it even possible?

Answer 1

You can use the .serialize() function

$('yourform').serialize();

Docs for .serialize() here

You would use it like this :

$.ajax({
    url: 'process-form.php',
    data: $('form').serialize(),  // **** added this line ****
    success: function (response) { //response is value returned from php
        $("#dialog-success").dialog({
            modal: true,
            buttons: {
                Ok: function () {
                    $(this).dialog("close");
                }
            }
        });
    }
});