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I am trying to call a .php or .html file to display an input page for emails.

The file ContactDisplay.php contains a <button> to onclick a call to the sendEmail() function which, in turn, sends data to the file ContactEmail.html. The data is retrieved using $_POST and used to populate the <form> contained in ContactEmail.php.

Please see attached file.

The problem is: The form is not displayed nor is the result of print_r($_POST). The 'response' area of FIREBUG shows the total source code of the ContactEmail.php file.

I suspect this is the result of some stupid thing I've done but would appreciate some help in resolving the problem.

Thanks in advance, RP

<!-- 5 March 2012 Instead of showing <form name="mailTo"> populated with values retrieved from ContactDisplay.html
	the Resul as displayed with FIREBUG is just the code for this page.

    ====================  From ContactDisplay.html  onclick="sendMail()" ====================

	<button type="button" class='hov' name="contact" onclick="window.location.href='ContactConnect.html'">View More</button>           
 	<button type="button" class='hov' name="revise"  onclick="window.location.href='ContactRevise.html?dname=' + dispName
 			+ '&reviseId=' + revId">Revise/Add Data</button>
	<button type="button" class='hov' name="email" onclick="sendEmail()">Email</button>   			
 	<button type="button" class='hov' name="delete" onclick="window.location.href='ContactDelete.php?dname=' + dispName + '&reviseId=' + 					revId">Delete</button>  			
//  ====================  common.js  sendMail()  ====================================
			
//  called from ContactDisplay.html

	function sendEmail() {
		var str=[];
		var var1=$("#Display_Name").val();
		var var2=$("#Home_Email").val();		
		var var3=$("#Work_Email").val();
		var str=('dname='+var1+'&hmail='+var2+'&wmail='+var3);
		
		$.post("ContactEmail.html", str);
	}

//  ===============  ContactEmail.html  ==============================
	have tried this as .php file also  -->


<?php

set_include_path( '../include' );
error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

   $hostName = "localhost";
   $databaseName = "contacts";
   $username = "rick";
   $password = "rick";
   $table="cdata";
 
// From str sent from common.js by $.post("ContactEmail.html", str);
  
$dispName=$_POST['dname'];    
$emailHome=$_POST['hmail'];
$emailWork=$_POST['wmail'];

 print_r($_POST);
    		
?>

 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
                 "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
                 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd">
 
<html>

<head>
	<title>Demo: Using Javascript to send email</title>  
</head>

<body>
 
	<div class="header">
  		<h1><img src="../images/AmericanFlag2.png" alt="Company logo" height="90px" />
				Rick and Polly&rsquo;s Contacts</h1>
   		<h3> <span style="padding-left: 140px"> Send Email To: <span style="color: red" > <?php echo $dispName;?></span> </span></h3>
 	 </div>  		

	<div class="wrapper">

	<fieldset>
		<legend> Emailer</legend>
		<form name="mailTo" method="POST">
		
		<label for="mailh">Email-Home:</label>
		<input type="text" readonly name="mailh" id="mailh" value="<?php echo $emailHome; ?>"><br></input>
		
		<label for="mailw">Email-Work:&nbsp; </label>
		<input type="text" readonly name="mailw" id="mailw" value="<?php echo $emailWork; ?>"><br><br></input>
							
		<label> Mail To:</label><br />
		<input type="radio" name="mail" id="home" value="home" checked="checked">Home<br></input>
		<input type="radio" name="mail" id="work" value="work">Work<br></input>
		<input type="radio" name="mail" id="both" value="both">Both<br><br></input>
		<label for="subject">Subject:</label>
		<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject"><br><br></input>
		<input type="submit" name="submitmail"  value="Submit" >
		</form>
	</fieldset>
	</div> <!-- wrapper -->
	
<!-- Go on to <submit> and do other stuff here -->	
	
</body>
</html>
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Just posting to a PHP file doesn't show that page. The post function has a callback, which used, gives you the result of the page you post to. Then you can use Javascript/jQuery to do something with that. Have a look at the examples in the manual.

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I'm confused (again).

In looking at the manual it givesa number of examples at least two of which imply that you don't need to have a callback function.

Examples: (from manual)

Example: Request the test.php page, but ignore the return results.

$.post("test.php");

Example: Request the test.php page and send some additional data along (while still ignoring the return results).

$.post("test.php", { name: "John", time: "2pm" } );

Example: pass arrays of data to the server (while still ignoring the return results).

$.post("test.php", { 'choices[]': ["Jon", "Susan"] });

Example: send form data using ajax requests

$.post("test.php", $("#testform").serialize());

Example: Alert out the results from requesting test.php (HTML or XML, depending on what was returned).

$.post("test.php", function(data) {
alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
});

Example: Alert out the results from requesting test.php with an additional payload of data (HTML or XML, depending on what was returned).

$.post("test.php", { name: "John", time: "2pm" },
function(data) {
alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
});

Example: Gets the test.php page content, store it in a XMLHttpResponse object and applies the process() JavaScript function.

$.post("test.php", { name: "John", time: "2pm" },
function(data) {
process(data);
},
"xml"
);

If I use a callback function like:

function () {

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that's supposed to be:
function () {
return true;
}

Sorry, haven't found out how to edit this post.

R

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Example: Request the test.php page, but ignore the return results.
$.post("test.php");


That is what you do, so anything that is echoed by the PHP file is ignored.

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