Thanks! Looks perfect.
On Oct 12, 12:40 am, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Jason wrote:
>
>
>
> > Can someone explain a little bit more (more then jQuery's docs) about
> > how the $.post operates? I know it's a "shortcut" for .ajax and it
> > uses the HTTP POST request. So I'm guessing it's not sending the same
> > request the form would send... i.e. you HAVE to provide the data to
> > the php script through $.post. Is that correct? Then my next
> > question is, if I have a set of check boxes and name each box
> > "services
> > []"... PHP will load the value of each into an array. Is there a
> > quick way to assign these value to a JS variable to pass onto the PHP
> > script? Because PHP doesn't create that array until the POST request,
> > correct? But since I am using $.post, PHP is not making the request,
> > therefore doesn't create the array. Is that right? So I must do it
> > manually in JS... what would be best/quickest way to go about this?
> > Thanks for the help.
>
> You can send the form's input values as a serialized string
> using .serialize(). So, if you have a form with id="foo" you could do
> something like this:
>
> $('#foo').submit() {
> var formData = $(this).serialize();
> $.post('/path/to/file/', formData, function() {
> // do something when post is successful.
> });
> return false;
>
> });
>
> --Karl
>
> ____________
> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
