I have a simple AJAX function bound to a button that should execute a PostgreSQL query. However, when I click the button that I bound the ajax query to, all I get is the confirmation that the database connection was successful. Nothing seems to happen withe the ajax result (should be printing to console in the handleAjax() function. What am I doing wrong?
This is the javascript code (with jquery):
$(document).ready(function() {
function sendAjax() {
$.ajax({
url: "db/database.php",
success: function (result) {
handleAjax(result);
}
});
}
function handleAjax(result) {
console.log(result);
}
$("#submit-button").on("click", sendAjax);
});
And this it the contents of database.php:
<?php
function dbconn(){
ini_set('display_errors', 1); // Displays errors
//database login info
$host = 'localhost';
$port = 5432;
$dbname = 'sms';
$user = 'postgres';
$password = 'postgres';
// establish connection
$conn = pg_connect("host=$host port=$port dbname=$dbname user=$user password=$password");
if (!$conn) {
echo "Not connected : " . pg_error();
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected.";
}
}
$conn = dbconn();
$sql = "SELECT * FROM numbers;";
$result = pg_query( $sql ) or die('Query Failed: ' .pg_last_error());
$count = 0;
$text = 'error';
while( $row = pg_fetch_array( $result, null, PGSQL_ASSOC ) ) {
$text = $row['message'];
//echo $text;
}
pg_free_result( $result );
?>
The problem is in the database.php file, all you get is "Connected." because you don't print your result at the end. Ajax only receive the output of the php file.
So at the end of your php file you should add :
echo $text;
And you also should remove the echo "Connected.";
AJAX is not a magic wand that in magic way reads PHP code. Let's say AJAX is a user. So what does user do.
Open web page
Wait until PHP execute code and display data
Tells you what he sees
If you don't display anything, ajax can't tell you what he saw.
In thi's place is worth to say that the best way to communicate between PHP and AJAX is using JSON format.
Your code generally is good. All you have to do is to display your data. All your data is in your $text var. So let's convert your array ($text) to JSON.
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($text);
First you set content-type to json, so ajax knows that he reads json. Then you encode (convert) your PHP array to js-friendly format (JSON). Also delete unnecessary echoes like 'Conntected' because as I said, AJAX reads everything what he sees.
You should return $conn from dbconn()
if (!$conn) {
echo "Not connected : " . pg_error();
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected.";
return $conn;
}
Related
I realize that there are several similar questions that have been asked, but none of those have been able to get me over the top. Maybe what I wnat to do is just not possible?
I have a page on which there is an order form. The admin can create an order for any user in the database by selecting them in the dropdown menu and then fill out the form. But each user may have a PriceLevel that will give them a discount. So I need to be able to make a database call based on the username selected in the dropdown and display their price level and be able to use the username and pricelevel variables in my PHP.
I have the an add_order.php page on which the form resides, and an ajax.php which makes a quick DB call and returns the results in a json format.
The problem I am running into is actually getting the information from jQuery into the PHP. I have tried using the isset method, but it always comes back as false.
Here's what I have:
add_order.php
<?php
// $username = $_POST['orderUser']['Username'];
$username = isset($_POST['orderUser']) ? $_POST['orderUser']['Username'] : 'not here';
echo 'hello, ' . $username;
?>
...
$('#frm_Username').change(function() {
orderUser = $(this).val();
$.post('/admin/orders/ajax.php', {
action: 'fetchUser',
orderUser: orderUser
}
).success(function(data) {
if(data == 'error') {
alert('error');
} else {
console.log(data);
}
})
})
ajax.php
<?php
$action = $_POST['action'];
if($action == "fetchUser"):
$un = $_POST['orderUser'];
/*if($un):
echo $un;
exit;
endif;*/
// SET THE REST UP WITH MYSQL
if($un):
$qid = $DB->query("SELECT u.Username, u.PriceLevel FROM users as u WHERE u.Username = '" . $un . "'");
$row = $DB->fetchObject($qid);
// $row = jason_decode($row);
echo json_encode($row);
exit;
endif;
echo "error";
endif;
?>
I am logging to the console right now and getting this:
{"Username":"dev2","PriceLevel":"Tier 2"}
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
After calling $.post('/admin/orders/ajax.php', ...), the PHP code which sees your POSTed variable is ajax.php.
You need to check in there (inside ajax.php), whereas currently your isset check is in add_order.php, which does not see the POST request you send.
You do seem to have some logic in ajax.php, but whatever you've got in add_order.php is not going to see the data in question.
I having written a php script which makes an SQL query and fetches a list of unique names from the database.
I am making an AJAX GET request using jQuery to the php script. When I check resources in the console I see that the php script is being called, and when I check the response it contains a list of unique names.
However, the jquery GET request is failing, and is displaying an error message in the console.
It may be easier and clearer to look at my code, as I have no idea what is the issue here. Please see code below.
php
<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
$servername = "****";
$username = "****";
$password = "****";
$dbname = "****";
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT(name) FROM customer";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo json_encode(array('customer' => $row["name"]));
}
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
$conn->close();
?>
JS
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: 'getcustomers.php',
success: function(data){
console.log(data);
},
error: function() {
console.log('error');
}
});
In the console it simply says error, meaning it has executed the error function.
When I load the php file in the browser it displays the following.
{"name":"Peter"}{"name":"Alan"}{"name":"Mike"}
Your JSON response is not a valid one. You are printing each data row on each iteration. So replace the while statement with this one,
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
$return = array();
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$return[] = array('customer' => $row["name"]);
}
echo json_encode($return);
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
Considering your script returns any result (I hope you've tried running it in broswer) then you can use something like this:
$.get('path/to/file/filename.php').done(function(response) {
$('#exampleDiv').html(response);
});
Although, common errors because you must specify the directory path if the php file you're requesting is outside the current working directory.
change your error handler function header to the following:
error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
then print that and see what the error is
you are echoing json_encode string in side while loop, instead of that you will have to push row in an array and at the end you can echo json string only once.
$outputArr = array();
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
array_push(outputArr ,array('customer' => $row["name"]));
}
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
echo json_encode($outputArr);
<?php
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "" ) or die("Neuspjelo spajanje");
function InsertUser(){ global $con;
if(isset($_POST['sign_up'])){
$name = mysqli_real_escape_string($con, $_POST['u_name']);
$pass = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['u_pass']);
$email = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['u_email']);
$country = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['u_country']);
$gender = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['u_gender']);
$b_day = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['u_birthday']);
$date = date("m-d-Y");
$status = "unverified";
$posts = "No";
$get_email = "select * from users where user_email='$email'";
$run_email = mysqli_query($con, $get_email);
$check = mysqli_num_rows($run_email);
$insert = "insert into users (user_name, user_pass, user_email, user_country, user_gender, user_b_day,
user_image, register_date, last_login, status, posts) values
('$name','$pass', '$email', '$country', '$gender', '$b_day', 'default.jpg',
'$date', '$date', '$status', '$posts')";
$run_insert = mysqli_query($con, $insert);
$result = mysql_query($insert);
if($result){
echo "<script>alert ('You're successfully registered!')</script>";
echo "<script>window.open('home.php', '_self')</script>";
}
}
}
?>
You can't echo javascript and run it in a page that's already loaded. This would need to be the result of an ajax call on the client side with your redirects occuring from your ajax callbacks.
If you're ok with ditching the alert, you can just issue a redirect from php:
header('Location: home.php');
To do it ajaxy:
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "your_insert_user.php"
}).success(function(xhr) {
alert ("You're successfully registered!");
window.open('home.php', '_self');
}).fail(function (jqXHR, status, errorThrown) {
//something else here
});
But, why would you want to issue an ajax call just to redirect?
Additionally, you need to issue the appropriate responses from your insert script:
if ($result) { echo ""; } //issues a "200 OK"
else { header("HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity"); } //fires the failure callback in ajax
I would pass a conditional GET or POST paramater to home.php with some value flag and display your message there.
Based on what you post above, you are dealing with two separate issues here.
You say "it inserts" so I'm assuming that means that the mysql query to insert the new row into your database completes successfully. Then you send some HTML code, containing a (somewhat mangled) Javascript snippet, to the browser, which is supposed to issue a redirect request to the client's web browser, which doesn't have the desired result, seeing as you write that it "won't redirect".
Keep in mind that redirection is performed by the browser, is dependent on the browser's capabilities and/or settings, and requires proper javascript in the first place.
How do properly request a redirect from the browser has been discussed before on SO.
First of all,remove this line $result = mysql_query($insert); then modify your code and add this, hope it will work:
$run_insert = mysqli_query($con, $insert);
if($run_insert){
echo "<script>alert ('You\'re successfully registered!')</script>";
echo "<script>window.open('home.php', '_self')</script>";
}
I'm having trouble getting data from my database. My goal is to get all groups from my database and return them in JSON (in an alert box or whatever).
Now it won't convert to JSON and I am getting weird response text from the ajax call. If you need anything else to solve this problem, please do not hesitate to ask.
Here is what I did.
PHP
$servername = "redacted";
$username = "redacted";
$password = "redacted";
$dbname = "redacted";
if(isset($_POST['action']) && !empty($_POST['action'])) {
$action = $_POST['action'];
switch($action) {
case 'getGroups' : getAllGroups();break;
}
}
function getAllGroups() {
$mysqli = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
$query = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM groups");
while($row = $query->fetch_object()) {
$result[] = $row;
}
echo "{\"results\":";
echo json_encode($result);
echo "}";
$mysqli->close();
}
JS
function getPosts() {
$.ajax({
url: 'functions.php',
data: {action: 'getGroups'},
type: 'post',
success: function(output) {
var result = JSON.parse(output);
result = result.resultaten;
alert(result);
}
});
}
getPosts();
Thanks in advance,
Mistergrave.
No need for that extra echos. Try with -
echo json_encode(array('results' => $result));
Instead of -
echo "{\"results\":";
echo json_encode($result);
echo "}";
No need for - if(isset($_POST['action']) && !empty($_POST['action'])) {
if(!empty($_POST['action'])) { - do the all.
Define $result first.
$result = array();
while($row = $query->fetch_object()) {
$result[] = $row;
}
Okay guys, I managed to solve everything. Apparently the php function couldn't find my credentials to log in to the database server because I defined them on top of the php file (and since javascript only executed the function, these credentials were undefined).
Solution:
I just copy-pasted the credentials at the start of each function so these were defined. And tadaah! It worked :).
Now I realize why the responseText was full of tables, because it started to return error tables about the connection.
I hope my explanation will help other people who have this issue as well.
Cheers, and thanks for all the helpfull answers,
Mistergrave.
use
echo json_encode(array('result'=>$result));
As it takes array as parameter. Check here
Just a note :
If are sure you will return json data, use dataType:json , so you wont need JSON.parse(output).
In Php, I encoded a JSON array from MySQL table . i want to decode it in different Php file . and i want to access the data through JavaScript from different file. anyone please help me.
MY code is:
$serverName = "(local)";
$connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"sample");
$conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo);
if( $conn )
{
echo "Connection established.<br/>";
}
else
{
echo "Connection could not be established.<br/>";
die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}
$str="Select * from sam1";
$res=sqlsrv_query($conn,$str) or die("Error !");
$response=array();
while( $row = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $res, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC) )
{
$response['tdata'][]=$row;
}
print(json_encode($response));
Output is :
{"tdata":[{"id":"1","name":"aaa"},{"id":"2","name":"bbb"},{"id":"3","name":"ccc"}]}
My decode Function is:
$data = file_get_contents('db2.php');
$data1 = json_decode($data, true);
print($data1);
but its not working..
When you return JSON encoded string it is best if you send a proper headers. You should return JSON like that (you can still use print function):
<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($data);
Now, when you retrieve this output, send it to json_decode function that will return an object.
json_decode.
file_get_contents function retrieves content of the file, it does not parse it. To retrieve the content of the file:
by calling it with an URL (DO NOT USE THIS ONE I am showing this method for the purpose of learning only, this function wont load URL if allow_url_fopen directive is off, instead you can use curl library (here))
$json = file_get_contents('www.example.com/db2.php');
echo json_decode($json, true);
by including it with a relative path
$json = (include "db2.php");
echo json_decode($json, true);
in this particular scenario, db2.php has to use return statement like so
return json_encode($response);
by using ob_* with include, this time you do not need to return in db2.php file
ob_start();
include "db2.php";
$json = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo json_decode($json, true);
It looks like you're populating $data with the text of db2.php instead of the output from running the file in php. Try this:
$data = `php db2.php`