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A part of AJAX response storing in PHP variable

I need to store a piece of data, into PHP variable, which is received through AJAX response in an input box. How can I do this?
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#user_id").change(function() {
var id = $(this).val();
var dataString = 'user_id='+ id;
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "wmat_details.php",
data: dataString,
cache: false,
success: function(result) {
var data = result.split(",");
$('#name').val(data[0]);
$('#email').val(data[1]);
$('#ref_id').val(data[2]);
$('#candidature_start').val(data[3]);
$('#candidature_end').val(data[4]);
$('#default_attempts').val(data[5]);
$('#existing_complimentary').val(data[6]);
$('#wmat_start').val(data[9]);
$('#wmat_end').val(data[10]);
$('#attempts_taken').val(data[11]);
}
});
});
});
</script>
As shown in above code, I want to store $('#attempts_taken').val(data[11]); this value to a PHP variable. Any insight is appreciated.

Unfortunately you can't.
PHP is server side while jQuery (JS) is client side. They are two separate layers of abstraction that interact only when the client call the server.
I don't have enough informations about what you need to do with data[11] but it seems that you have only one option: make a consecutive AJAX call to the php file that will manipulate data[11].
The consecutive AJAX call must be executed from inside the first call success callback; something like this:
success: function(result){
// Your on success logic
// ...
// Prepare the object to send to the server
var objData = {};
objData.attemptsTaken = data[11];
// Execute the second AJAX call to the server
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "second_call_destination_file.php",
data: objData,
success: function(result){
// Do something on success
},
error: function(){
// Do something on error
},
complete: function(){
// Do something on complete (executed after success and error)
}
}

You cannot store ajax response into a php variable.
way 1 :
You can make another ajax call.
way 2 :
you can set session.

Add additional data to jQuery wrapped object data in $.ajax call

I have this working code:
jQuery.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'http://www.someurl.com/callback.php',
dataType: 'json',
data: jQuery(':input[name^="option"][type=\'checkbox\']:checked, :input[name^="option"][type=\'text\']'),
complete: function (mydata) {
//do something with it
}
});
That successfully posts back any checked checkboxes and all textboxes. But now I want to add some arbitrary data as well to this. But not sure how to format it. Basically i want to simply add my own name=value pair "test=1" so that on the callback I see it like the others. But no matter what I try, I can't see to get the syntax correct in the format it expects. not sure if I should be adding it inside the jQuery() wrap or outside.. I've tried serializing, encodeURIComponent, basic string "&test=1"
Any ideas?

Your best bet is to build the parameters outside of the AJAX call, like so:
var params = jQuery(':input[name^="option"][type=\'checkbox\']:checked, :input[name^="option"][type=\'text\']');
params.test = 1;
params.test2 = 2;
Then in your AJAX call, simply use:
jQuery.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'http://www.someurl.com/callback.php',
dataType: 'json',
data: params,
complete: function (mydata) {
//do something with it
}
});
EDIT: Typically when using jQuery to collect input, I tend to use the .each function, like so:
var params = new Object();
$.each('input[name^=option]', function() {
if ((this.type === 'checkbox' && $(this).is(':checked')) || this.type === 'text' && this.value !== '') {
params[this.name] = this.value;
}
});
Then if you wish to add parameters, you'd do so either after this, or right after creating your new object.

I forgot I asked this previously. It was answered correctly so I'm sharing the link:
How can I pass form data AND my own variables via jQuery Ajax call?

Waiting for a function to return a value before firing jQuery Ajax request

I'm trying to fire an Ajax request with some data being returned by a function call and, as far as I can tell, the Ajax call isn't waiting for my function call to return.
I'm calling getSelectedMessages to get the values of a variable number of checkboxes before firing an Ajax request with an array of the values returned by getSelectedMessages.
getSelectedMessages looks like this:
var getSelectedMessages = function() {
var selected = [];
$('input:checkbox[name=multipleops]:checked').each(function() {
selected.push($(this).attr('value'));
});
return selected;
}
And the Ajax request that's invoking it looks like this:
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/api/messages/",
data: { ids: getSelectedMessages(), folder: folder },
cache: false,
success: function(){ location.reload() }
});
I've done a little bit of searching around and all I'm turning up are answers on how to return a value from a call and to it.

use
beforeSend attribute with ajax
try
var getSelectedMessages = function() {
var selected = [];
$('input:checkbox[name=multipleops]:checked').each(function() {
selected.push($(this).attr('value'));
});
return selected;
}
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/api/messages/",
beforeSend : function () { return jQuery.isEmptyObject(getSelectedMessages); }
data: { ids: getSelectedMessages(), folder: folder },
cache: false,
success: function(){ location.reload() }
});
Reference
beforeSend
isEmptyObject

Call getSelectedMessages() outside the ajax function of jquery (?)

The function is executed before the request is sent.
The real problem is that the getSelectedMessaged() returns an array.
This results in undefined=undefined after serialization in jQuery's internals.
And that gets ignored by the $.ajax(), so it looks like it's not sending in your vars but it's ignoring them because they're undefined.
If you concatenate a string with the values and make it a query string parameter yourself it should work.
I assume you want to send something like ?var[]=something&var[]=somethingelse to the server, so it ends up in PHP as an array?
Than you'll have to build up the string yourself in the getSelectedMessages function.
Hope it helps,
PM5544

How to set values to array when async webservice responce is called

Friends,
I have declared array in javascipt
var Answer1 = new Array(50);
I want to call webserivce using $ajax & i want to store its response at appropriate index of array.
& want to use that array immediately after all the values are set.
Currently i am doing this by using async:false property of $ajax .
Does anyone know way with asynchrnous way because when i use asynchronous values of array remains undefined.
for(var j=0;j < mycollection.length-1;j++)
{
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: webserviceURL,
dataType: 'json',
error: function(data)
{
//alert(data.error);
},
success: function(data)
{
if(data.error!=null)
{
console.log('data error');
Answer1[j] = data.name;
}
},
complete: function(data)
{
alert('completed:');
},
data: {},
async: false
});

Well you are using the wrong index for Answer1:
Answer1[i] = data.name;
should be:
Answer1[j] = data.name;
But if that still doesn't work, pass j as a parameter to your webservice and get the webservice to return it as part of the response so you know the index to assign to.
Also you are only assigning if data.error is not null? Is that what you want, didn't you want to assign if there is no error (i.e. data.error is null)?

Put whatever code uses the array into a function. Call that function from the success handler for your Ajax call.

jQuery ajax function return

I have this function that embeds flash :
function embedswfile(target, swf, base, width, height) {//dosomething}
And I want to call the function like this
embedSwf("flashgame",decode("<?=base64_encode($path['location'])?>"),decode("<?=base64_encode($path['base_directory'])?>"),"800","600" )
The idea is that whenever someone looks for any swf inside my website,he wont find anything clean.I will change the encoding algorithm,but this is just temporary. In order for that function to work,whenever I call the function 'decode' it must return a single value. PHP contains
<?php
echo base64_decode($_POST['s']);
?>
I tried this but it still wont work
var globvar;
function processdata(newmsg) {
globvar = newmsg;
}
function decode(s){
$.ajax({type: "POST",
url: "includes/decode.inc.php",
data: "s=" + s,
success:function(newmsg){
processdata(newmsg);
}
});
return globvar;
}

Important:
Forget about using Ajax and encoding, decoding the path. What do you think you gain from it? Security? No. One can figure out that this is bas64 encoded or he just monitors the network traffic and reads the response from the Ajax call.
Just do
embedSwf("flashgame","<? =$path['location']?>"),"<?=$path['base_directory']?>","800","600" )
Really, you cannot prevent someone else seeing the data and are just making things more complicated for you.
(Or you have to decrypt the data with JavaScript.)
(original answer is still correct nevertheless)
Ajax is asynchronous so something like var test = decode(s); will never work. The decode function will return before the Ajax call finishes.
Instead, put your logic into the callback handler. For example, if your code was this before:
var retdata = decode('s');
// here comes code that handles retdata
put the code into a function and call it from the success handler:
function process(retdata) {
// here comes code that handles retdata
}
function decode(s){
$.ajax({type: "POST",
url: "includes/decode.inc.php",
data: "s=" + s,
success:function(newmsg){
process(newmsg);
}
});
}
This seems to be a very common problem to all beginners. You will find a lot of questions here that deal with the same problem.
Update:
It is not nice, but you could change the function to
function decode(s, cb){
$.ajax({type: "POST",
url: "includes/decode.inc.php",
data: "s=" + s,
success:function(data){
cb(data);
}
});
}
and do
decode("<?=base64_encode($path['location'])?>", function(location) {
decode("<?=base64_encode($path['base_directory'])?>", function(dir) {
embedSwf("flashgame",location,dir,"800","600" );
});
});
Update 2:
For completeness, you can make the Ajax call synchronous, by using async: false. Then this will work:
function decode(s){
var ret;
$.ajax({type: "POST",
url: "includes/decode.inc.php",
data: "s=" + s,
async: false,
success:function(newmsg){
ret = newmsg;
}
});
return sync;
}
var val = decode(s);
However, this will block the browser until the Ajax call finished. You have to test whether this matters in your case or not.
Update 3:
You could also change your PHP script to not only accept one parameter but several and process both strings in one go.