Question

This is driving me mad. I’m passing two variables into a function that posts data to a PHP script and then into a database. Pretty simple stuff but I can get the php name part to pass, it just returns empty. I’ve looked at the $.post notes and everything looks ok:

function postData(phpvar, value) {
   $.post('scripts/insert.php', { phpvar: value }, function (data) {
       if (data == true) {
           alert('yes')
       } else {
           alert(data)
       }
   });
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to set the name like this…

var params = {};
params[phpvar] = value;

$.post('scripts/insert.php', params, function(data){

or like this…

$.post('scripts/insert.php', {phpvar:phpvar, value:value}, function(data){

Not sure which you’re after.