I am trying to make a ajax call and validate a input html field. But, instead of getting simple echo message. I am getting complete source code in responseText.
JavaScript
function checkUsername() {
document.getElementById("username").className = "thinking";
usernameRequest = createRequest();
if (usernameRequest == null)
alert("Unable to create request");
else {
var theName = document.getElementById("username").value;
var username = escape(theName);
var url= "checkName.php?username=" + username;
usernameRequest.onreadystatechange = showUsernameStatus;
usernameRequest.open("GET", url, true);
usernameRequest.send(null);
}
}
function showUsernameStatus() {
alert(usernameRequest.responseText);
if (usernameRequest.readyState == 4)
{
if (usernameRequest.status == 200) {
if (usernameRequest.responseText == "okay") {
document.getElementById("username").className = "approved";
document.getElementById("register").disabled = false;
}
else {
document.getElementById("username").className = "denied";
document.getElementById("username").focus();
document.getElementById("username").select();
document.getElementById("register").disabled = true;
}
}
}
}
checkName.php
<?php
$takenUsernames = array('bill', 'ted');
sleep(2);
if (!in_array($_REQUEST['username'],$takenUsernames )) {
echo 'okay';
} else {
echo 'denied';
?>
Previously, I tried to integrate PHP into tomcat, but I was advice it was not a good practice. TRIAL TO INTEGRATE PHP
What I can make out of this situation is that Tomcat is not parsing PHP file and instead it is returning the source code. I believe there should be a means for me to let tomcat parse php files and send the right response.
I have also tried with simple php code, with one statment <?php echo 'HELLO'; ?> and I still get the source code.
Thanks in advance.
NOTE : I do not know php, I am working an example from HEAD FIRST AJAX
