Question

What options do I have for passing large text in a call to $.ajax(...)?

I have the content stored in a variable already:

articleText

So I have:

$.ajax(
 type: "POST",
 url: "/test/add_article",
 dataType: "json",
 data: ??????,
 success: function(d) {
    alert(d);
 }
});

In the docs they show:

"p1=asdfasdf&p2=2sdfasdf"

Also:

data: ({someName: someValue })

I like the latter, so is the someValue where I put my variable?

What about encoding it or is it just like a form post where I can handle that on the server-side?

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Answer 1

You would simply do data: { aT: articleText }. Then in your server-side script you can access that text as post variable aT…in PHP it would be: $_POST['aT'].

jQuery converts { aT: articleText } to "aT=myTextContentWouldBeHere".