Handling PHP post without redirect

Question

I'm looking to make an html form post to a php script but I do not want to actually redirect the user to this script. All I need is for the script to take the post data, do something with it and then somehow return this data so it's useable to the calling script. Is this at all possible?

The only way I can think of doing it is to have a php script that posts to itself but it's very messy as I am using jQuery and JavaScript inside the calling script.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Use JQuery Ajax.

Assuming that you have a form like

<form id="Form" action="response.php" method="post">...</form>

JQuery:

$('#Form').submit(function (event){
        $.ajax({
            type:"POST", // define method post or get
            url:$('#Form').attr('action'), // gets the post url from your action attribute
            data:$('#Form').serialize(), // binds your form data
            dataType:'json', // server response data type, use 'html' 'json' etc
            encode:true,
            success:function(data){
            },
            error:function( xhr, status, errorThrown ) {
            alert( "Sorry, there was a problem!" );
            console.log( "Error: " + errorThrown );
            console.log( "Status: " + status );
            console.dir( xhr );

            },
        });
         event.preventDefault(); // prevents from going to the posting url
    });