The jQuery.post( url, [data], [callback], [type] ) method loads a page from the server using a POST HTTP request.
The method returns XMLHttpRequest object.
Here is the simple syntax to use this method:
$.post( url, [data], [callback], [type] )
Here is the description of all the parameters used by this method:
url: A string containing the URL to which the request is sent
data:: This optional parameter represents key/value pairs or the return value of the .serialize() function that will be sent to the server.
callback:: This optional parameter represents a function to be executed whenever the data is loaded successfully.
type:: This optional parameter represents a type of data to be returned to callback function: "xml", "html", "script", "json", "jsonp", or "text".
Assuming we have following PHP content in /jquery/result.html file:
<?php if( $_REQUEST["name"] ) { $name = $_REQUEST['name']; echo "Welcome ". $name; } ?>
<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../js/jquery-2.2.0.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("#driver").click(function(event){ $.post( "/jquery/result.html", { name: "Sophia" }, function(data) { $('#stage').html(data); } ); }); }); </script> </head> <body> <p>Click on the button to load result.html file:</p> <div id="stage" style="background-color:blue;"> STAGE </div> <input type="button" id="driver" value="Load Data" /> </body> </html>
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