Question

The bit that sends the data out on a button click:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "<?php echo base_url(); ?>coformation/appoint/",
    data: {
            "director":director.attr('checked'),
            "shareholder":shareholder.attr('checked'),
            "secretary":secretary.attr('checked'),
            "firstname":firstname.attr('value'),
            "lastname":lastname.attr('value'),
            "birthday":birthday.attr('value'),
            "birthmonth":birthmonth.attr('value'),
            "birthyear":birthyear.attr('value'),
            "occupation":occupation.attr('value'),
            "nationality":nationality.attr('value'),
            "security1":security1.attr('value'),
            "securityletters1":securityletters1.attr('value'),
            "security2":security2.attr('value'),
            "securityletters2":securityletters2.attr('value'),
            "security3":security3.attr('value'),
            "securityletters3":securityletters3.attr('value'),
            "residentialaddress":residentialaddr.text(),
            "serviceaddress":serviceaddr.text()
          },
    success: function(response) { 
            alert(response.message);
    },
    dataType: "json"
});

But when i var_dump($_POST) in the target URL, it appears that this procedure sends out only 2 fields:

array (size=2)  'residentialaddress' => string 'XXX' (length=34)  'serviceaddress' => string '' (length=0)

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

you are posting attributes there attr()..please go throu the link to see what attr actually does..

you can even try doing

console.log(director.attr('checked'));  //which you 'll notice that this is not you want

 "director":director.attr('checked'),....

this send either true or false..

that should be

 "director":director.val(),"shareholder":shareholder.val(),....

val() gives you the value of checked element if checkbox or radio .. text if textbox…. i think this is what you want