How do I encode JSON in PHP via jQuery Ajax post data?

Question 1

I have an HTML form and send data to php file when hitting submit button.

$.ajax({
    url: "text.php",
    type: "POST",
    data: {
        amount: amount,
        firstName: firstName,
        lastName: lastName,
        email: email
    },
    dataType: "JSON",
    success: function (data) {
        console.log("ok");
        $("#result").text(data);
    }
});

In PHP:

<?php
    $amount      = $_POST["amount"];
    $firstName   = $_POST["firstName"];
    $lastName    = $_POST["lastName"];
    $email       = $_POST["email"];
    if(isset($amount)){
        $data = array(
            "amount"     => $amount,
            "firstName"  => $firstName,
            "lastName"   => $lastName,
            "email"      => $email
        );
        echo json_encode($data);
    }
?>

The result is [object object]. I want a type like:

{"Amount":"12.34", "FirstName":"Any", "LastName":"Tester", "Email":"[email protected]"}

What have I done wrong?

Question 2

Code example with JSON.stringify:

<html>
    <head>
       <title>jQuery Test</title>
       <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
       <script type="text/javascript">
           $(document).ready(function() {
               $("#submit").click(function(){
                   $.ajax({
                       url: "text.php",
                       type: "POST",
                       data: {
                           amount: $("#amount").val(),
                           firstName: $("#firstName").val(),
                           lastName: $("#lastName").val(),
                           email: $("#email").val()
                       },
                       dataType: "JSON",
                       success: function (jsonStr) {
                           $("#result").text(JSON.stringify(jsonStr));
                       }
                   });
               });
           });
       </script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <div id="result"></div>
        <form name="contact" id="contact" method="post">
            Amount: <input type="text" name="amount" id="amount"/><br/>
            firstName: <input type="text" name="firstName" id="firstName"/><br/>
            lastName: <input type="text" name="lastName" id="lastName"/><br/>
            email: <input type="text" name="email" id="email"/><br/>
            <input type="button" value="Get It!" name="submit" id="submit"/>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

text.php

<?php
    $amount      = $_POST["amount"];
    $firstName   = $_POST["firstName"];
    $lastName    = $_POST["lastName"];
    $email       = $_POST["email"];
    if(isset($amount)){
        $data = array(
            "amount"     => $amount,
            "firstName"  => $firstName,
            "lastName"   => $lastName,
            "email"      => $email
        );
        echo json_encode($data);
    }
?>

Question 3

Your code works if you remove dataType: 'json', just tested it.

$('#save').click(function() {
  var tmp = JSON.stringify($('.dd').nestable('serialize'));
  // tmp value: [{"id":21,"children":[{"id":196},{"id":195},{"id":49},{"id":194}]},{"id":29,"children":[{"id":184},{"id":152}]},...]
  $.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: 'save_categories.php',
    data: {'categories': tmp},
    success: function(msg) {
      alert(msg);
    }
  });
});

Question 4

With jQuery post you can define a callback function which is executed when the data is returned:

$.post('/callcenter/admin/postContacts', data, function(returnedData) {
    // do something here with the returnedData
    console.log(returnedData);
});

The data should be in the form:

{name: 'value', anotherName: 'another value'}

which equates to the post names on the PHP end accessible in plain PHP like this:

echo $_POST['name'];           # prints "value"
echo $_POST['anotherName'];    # print "another value"

Question 5

here is a simple one

here is my test.php for testing only

<?php

// this is just a test
//send back to the ajax request the request

echo json_encode($_POST);

here is my index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>

</head>
<body>

<form id="form" action="" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Age: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
FavColor: <input type="text" name="favc"><br>
<input id="submit" type="button" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>




<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function(){
        // click on button submit
        $("#submit").on('click', function(){
            // send ajax
            $.ajax({
                url: 'test.php', // url where to submit the request
                type : "POST", // type of action POST || GET
                dataType : 'json', // data type
                data : $("#form").serialize(), // post data || get data
                success : function(result) {
                    // you can see the result from the console
                    // tab of the developer tools
                    console.log(result);
                },
                error: function(xhr, resp, text) {
                    console.log(xhr, resp, text);
                }
            })
        });
    });

</script>
</body>
</html>

Both file are place in the same directory

Question 6

If you already have the page you want to print, put that page in an hidden iframe and print the content of iframe

<iframe src="letterprint.php" name="frame"></iframe>

<input type="button" onclick="frames['frame'].print()" value="printletter">

How do I encode JSON in PHP via jQuery Ajax post data?

Answers

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