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AJAX / PHP - Pass variables using POST?

I currently have the following piece of code working - passing a GET request to another page, and that second page can pick up the variable:

Page 1 AJAX code:

<script type="text/javascript">
function StockCodeInfo(str)
 {
 var xmlhttp;
 if (str=="")
   {
   document.getElementById("StockCodeInfo").innerHTML="";
   return;
   }
 if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
   {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
   xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
   }
 else
   {// code for IE6, IE5
   xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
   }
 xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
   {
   if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
     {
     document.getElementById("StockCodeInfo").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
     }
   }
 xmlhttp.open("GET","ajax/stockcodeinfo.php?q="+str,true);
 xmlhttp.send();
 }
 
 </script>




Page 2 - , get the variable and display it:

<?php
 $q=$_GET["q"];
 echo $q;
 ?>

How do I do that exact same thing using the post method - i'm failing to see how the variables get passed through?

I've had a quick google and i can see that the following lines need changing:

 xmlhttp.open("GET","ajax/stockcodeinfo.php?q="+str,true);
 xmlhttp.send();

obviously GET is replaced with POST - the URL loses the q= and the +str goes - but how are the POST variables actually passed?

Thanks
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basically you need to pass the data in the send() method as a parameter

var parameters = {
  "q":str;
};
xmlhttp.send(parameters);
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That looks like what im after but it doesnt seem to be working - heres the updated code that im using:

<script type="text/javascript">
function StockCodeInfo(str)
 {
 var xmlhttp;
 if (str=="")
   {
   document.getElementById("StockCodeInfo").innerHTML="";
   return;
   }
 if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
   {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
   xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
   }
 else
   {// code for IE6, IE5
   xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
   }
 xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
   {
   if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
     {
     document.getElementById("StockCodeInfo").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
     }
   }
 var parameters = {"q": str;  };

 xmlhttp.open("POST","ajax/stockcodeinfo.php",true);
 xmlhttp.send(parameters);
 }
 
 </script>

In dreamweaver it says: there is a syntax error on line 37 (which is the new line) and when that script runs in a browser, it doesnt return any data at all from the new page (which it was doing previously - just not with the variables)

Any idea where thats gone wrong?

Thanks
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i don't understand why you want to write in javascript when there is a better alternative in JQuery and that too with too less code...

Try giving it a thought....
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make
var parameters = {"q": str;  };

as

var parameters = {"q": str  };
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OK - That line is fixed - but its now failing as soon as I change:

 xmlhttp.send();

to:

 xmlhttp.send(parameters);

- as soon as that line is changed it stops loading the second page again?

Buggycoder - i'm sure there are others ways to do this, but at the moment id simply like to get the code I already have working - at the moment i dont want to look at something completely new - I will take a look at it though :) Thanks for the info
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The last 2 posts combined got me the result i was after :)

gurvinder372 - the parameter you mentioned was correct:

var parameters = "q="+str;


Buggycoder - i noticed on one of your links it mentions that you must add the http request header for the post function to work - without that i was getting no results at all.

Here is the final code im using for reference:

 xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
   {
   if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
     {
     document.getElementById("StockCodeInfo").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
     }
   }

var params = "q="+str;


 xmlhttp.open("POST","ajax/stockcodeinfo.php",true);
 
 //Send the proper header information along with the request
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");

 xmlhttp.send(params);
 }
 
 </script>

Thanks very much for the help