ajax post example

<mce:script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"><!-- var http_request = false; function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) { http_request = false; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,... http_request = new XMLHttpRequest(); if (http_request.overrideMimeType) { // set type accordingly to anticipated content type //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml'); http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html'); } } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE try { http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { try { http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) {} } } if (!http_request) { alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance'); return false; } http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents; http_request.open('POST', url, true); http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length); http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close"); http_request.send(parameters); } function alertContents() { if (http_request.readyState == 4) { if (http_request.status == 200) { //alert(http_request.responseText); result = http_request.responseText; document.getElementById('myspan').innerHTML = result; } else { alert('There was a problem with the request.'); } } } function get(obj) { var poststr = "mytextarea1=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("mytextarea1").value ) + "&mytextarea2=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("mytextarea2").value ); makePOSTRequest('post.php', poststr); } // --></mce:script>

 

 

<form action="javascript:get(document.getElementById('myform'));" name="myform"  id="myform">

<textarea id="mytextarea1"> my test

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</textarea>

<textarea id="mytextarea2"> my test2

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</textarea>

<br>

<input type="button" name="button" value="Submit" οnclick="javascript:get(this.parentNode);">

<input type="submit" name="button" value="Normal Submit Button">

</form>

<br><br>

Server-Response:<br>

<hr>

<span name="myspan" id="myspan"></span>

<hr>

 

post.php:

<? print_r($_POST); ?>