I'm in the middle of creating a bidding system with the help of
jQuery. I'd like the actual bid process to be all Ajax. I have one
input field for the price and a submit button to send it. Problem is I
don't know how to send the users value from the input field to the php
file.
I'm trying to get these basics functions down so I don't have to
bother anyone else :p.
1 - User adds a price and clicks submit.
2 - if there is a error message, show it and when the user resubmits,
delete the old error message and show the new message.
Here is the basic code I'm using. I deleted alot of code surrounding
it to keep it simple.
$("#placebid").click(function() {
$.ajax ({
type: "POST",
url: "ajax/place_bid.php",
success: function(msg) {
$("#bidform").find("#msg").not(".alert").append(msg)
}
});
});
<div class="bidform" id="bidform">
<div class="msg" id="msg"></div>
Your Bid: <span class="green"><strong>$</strong></span> <input
type="text" name="mybid" id="mybid" class="inputbutton" value=""
size="10" /> <input type="submit" class="inputbutton" id="placebid"
value="Place Bid" tabindex="1" title="" />
</div>
Can anyone send me in the right direction? I'm pretty good at PHP
coding, but I'm a newbie when it comes to jQuery. Thanks in advanced!
