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How to save a post and custom fields values with ajax in front end in wordpress?

p.s. had placed this simply to share the solution.
I'd like to save a post in front end if we click a button using ajax in js:
var title = $("#portfolioTitle").val();
var customFieldValues = $("#customfieldValue").val();
$("#btnClick").on("click", function() {
$.ajax({
url : ajax_url,
type: 'post',
dataType: 'json',
data: {
action: 'data_Publish', portfolioTitle: title, fieldValues: customFieldValues
},
success: function(data) {
if(data == "exists") {
console.log("Add a different title");
} else {
console.log("post added");
console.log(data["link"]);
console.log(data["title"]);
}
}
});
});

Placing my own answer but wondering if there is there any speed or security improvements?
For example we could add a caching system, or define our own ajax (Maybe a help could be answering: How to implement the code in the link using the case scenario we have on this question?) in order not to have wordpress loading all the files but here we are doing a http request, anyway, if any of you would want to give their 2 cents to make it faster, It'd be great.
Let's say we want to add posts via ajax in frontEnd in wordpress and we want to check if the title is unique in the database otherwise tell the user to add a different title:
We have a button to click:
<button type="button" id="btnClick">Load</button>
We have an input for the title and a custom field:
<input type="text" id="portfolioTitle" name="portfolioTitle" value="" placeholder="Your title...">
<input type="text" id="customfieldValue" name="customfieldValue" value="" placeholder="Your customFieldvalue...">
The JS. Firstly you need to load wordpress ajax (This is the bit that could be improved if anyone fances to):
var ajax_url = '<?php echo admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' ); ?>';
Then your javaScript:
var title = $("#portfolioTitle").val();
var customFieldValues = $("#customfieldValue").val();
$("#btnClick").on("click", function() {
$.ajax({
url : ajax_url,
type: 'post',
dataType: 'json',
data: {
action: 'data_Publish', portfolioTitle: title, fieldValues: customFieldValues
},
success: function(data) {
if(data == "exists") {
console.log("Add a different title");
} else {
console.log("post added");
console.log(data["link"]);
console.log(data["title"]);
}
}
});
});
Then in function.php:
function data_Publish() {
$post_title = $_POST['portfolioTitle'];
$post_custom_field = $_POST['fieldValues'];
$post = array(
'post_title' => $post_title,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'page',
'page_template' => 'portoflio.php'
);
if ( get_page_by_title( $post_title ) === null ) {
// the title is unique, we can add the new page
$post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );
add_post_meta($post_id, 'customField', $post_custom_field], true);
$link = get_permalink( get_page_by_title( $post_title ) );
$title = get_the_title($post_id);
$newPostAttributes[] = array("link"=>$link, "title"=>$title);
echo json_encode($newPostAttributes);
} else {
// that title already exists, tell the user to change it
echo json_encode("exists");
}
wp_die();
}
add_action('wp_ajax_data_Publish', 'data_Publish');
Basically that function is a normal wordpress query. Therefore you could use the same logic to retrieve post values if You'd want to, for example you won't be using $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post ); but maybe to get the tittle back to the user you'd use $postTile = get_the_title();.
Let's break it down:
In ajax we use action: 'data_Publish', portfolioTitle: title where data_Publish is our php function, and portfolioTitle: title is what we are sending.
In function we can see: $post_title = $_POST['portfolioTitle']; that's our title that we have sent via ajax. With 'page_template' => 'portoflio.php' we can add our own template to that page.
Then we need to use if ( get_page_by_title( $_POST['portfolioTitle'] ) === null ) { to check if that title exists or not, if it doesn't exist, we add the posts to the database with $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );
Once we added it we use the following to add any other values to our custom field in the newly created postadd_post_meta($post_id, 'customField', $_POST['customfieldValue'], where customField is the name of the custom field we want to create in the new post we just added.
So if the posts doesn't exist, we save it and we can send back to ajax its title and its link so that we could shows it to the user as a response if We'd ever want to.
So we define title and link like this and we create a multidimentional array to send the data back to the front end:
$link = get_permalink( get_page_by_title( $post_title ) );
$title = get_the_title($post_id);
$newPostAttributes[] = array("link"=>$link, "title"=>$title);
If the title exists we send back a response echo json_encode("exists");
We need to die the query for safeness wp_die();
If We'd ever want to make ajax available to no logged user, remember wordpress ajax is only available to admin, so we need to add:
add_action('wp_ajax_data_Publish', 'data_Publish');
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_data_Publish', 'data_Publish' );
Basically in function.php wordpress uses wp_ajax_ +"name of our function" and wordpress has wp_ajax_nopriv_ to make ajax available if not logged.
I hope It helps anyone and if any of You could improve it, It'll be better for all.

ajax request is successful, but php is not running

I have a very simple jquery function that sends an Ajax call to a php file that should echo out an alert, but for the life of me, cannot get it to run. For now, I'm just trying to trigger the php to run. Here is the javascript:
function getObdDescription(){
var $code = document.getElementById("vehicle_obd_code").value;
var $length = $code.length;
if($length == 5){
window.confirm($length);
$.ajax({ url: '/new.php',
data: {action: 'test'},
type: 'post',
success:function(result)//we got the response
{
alert('Successfully called');
},
error:function(exception){alert('Exception:'+exception);}
});
}
return false;
}
Here is new.php
<?php
echo '<script language="javascript">';
echo 'alert("message successfully sent")';
echo '</script>';
?>
I'm testing in Chrome, and have the network tab up, and can see that the call is successful, as well, I get the 'Successfully called' message that pops up, so the jquery is running, and the Ajax call is successful. I also know that the url: '/new.php is correct, because when I delete new.php from my server, I get a status "404 (Not Found)" from the console and network tab. I've even test without the conditional if($length ==... and still no luck. Of course, I know that's not the problem though, because I get the 'Successfully called' response. Any ideas?

This isnt the way it works if you need to alert the text, you should do it at the front-end in your ajax success function, follow KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) and in the php just echo the text . that is the right way to do it.
You should do this:
function getObdDescription() {
var $code = document.getElementById("vehicle_obd_code").value;
var $length = $code.length;
if ($length == 5) {
window.confirm($length);
$.ajax({
url: '/new.php',
data: {
action: 'test'
},
type: 'post',
success: function (result) //we got the response
{
alert(result);
},
error: function (exception) {
alert('Exception:' + exception);
}
});
}
return false;
}
In your php
<?php
echo 'message successfully sent';
?>

You are exactly right Muhammad. It was not going to work the way I was expecting it. I wasn't really trying to do an Ajax call, but just to get an alert box to pop up; I just wanted confirmation that the call was working, and the PHP was running. Changing the alert('Successfully called'); to alert(result); and reading the text from the php definitely confirmed that the php was running all along.
I want to stay on topic, so will post another topic if that's what's needed, but have a follow-up question. To elaborate a bit more on what I'm trying to do, I am trying to run a function in my php file, that will in turn, update a template variable. As an example, here is one such function:
function get_vehicle_makes()
{
$sql = 'SELECT DISTINCT make FROM phpbb_vehicles
WHERE year = ' . $select_vehicle_year;
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
while($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result))
{
$template->assign_block_vars('vehicle_makes', array(
'MAKE' => $row['make'],
));
}
$db->sql_freeresult($result);
}
Now, I know that this function works. I can then access this function in my Javascript with:
<!-- BEGIN vehicle_makes -->
var option = document.createElement("option");
option.text = ('{vehicle_makes.MAKE}');
makeSelect.add(option);
<!-- END vehicle_makes -->
This is a block loop, and will loop through the block variable set in the php function. This work upon loading the page because the page that loads, is the new.php that I'm trying to do an Ajax call to, and all of the php runs in that file upon loading. However, I need the function to run again, to update that block variable, since it will change based on a selection change in the html. I don't know if this type of block loop is common. I'm learning about them since they are used with a forum I've installed on my site, phpBB. (I've looked in their support forums for help on this.). I think another possible solution would be to return an array, but I would like to stick to the block variable if possible for the sake of consistency.
I'm using this conditional and switch to call the function:
if(isset($_POST['action']) && !empty($_POST['action'])) {
$action = $_POST['action'];
//Get vehicle vars - $select_vehicle_model is used right now, but what the heck.
$select_vehicle_year = utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('vehicle_year', '', true));
$select_vehicle_make = utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('vehicle_make', '', true));
$select_vehicle_model = utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('vehicle_model', '', true));
switch($action) {
case 'get_vehicle_makes' :
get_vehicle_makes();
break;
case 'get_vehicle_models' :
get_vehicle_models();
break;
// ...etc...
}
}
And this is the javascript to run the Ajax:
function updateMakes(pageLoaded) {
var yearSelect = document.getElementById("vehicle_year");
var makeSelect = document.getElementById("vehicle_make");
var modelSelect = document.getElementById("vehicle_model");
$('#vehicle_make').html('');
$.ajax({ url: '/posting.php',
data: {action: 'get_vehicle_makes'},
type: 'post',
success:function(result)//we got the response
{
alert(result);
},
error:function(exception){alert('Exception:'+exception);}
});
<!-- BEGIN vehicle_makes -->
var option = document.createElement("option");
option.text = ('{vehicle_makes.MAKE}');
makeSelect.add(option);
<!-- END vehicle_makes -->
if(pageLoaded){
makeSelect.value='{VEHICLE_MAKE}{DRAFT_VEHICLE_MAKE}';
updateModels(true);
}else{
makeSelect.selectedIndex = -1;
updateModels(false);
}
}
The javascript will run, and the ajax will be successful. It appears that the block variable is not being set.

show a div based on a conditional ajax result in php form

I have a PHP form`looks like this
<form>
<div id="inid">
National ID: <input type="text" id="individual_nid" oninput="getIndividualName(this.value)" />
</div>
<hr />
name: <div id="individual_name_fetch"></div>
<hr />
<div id="other_inputs fields" style="display: none;">
more inputs fields...
</div>
</form>
In my PHP form I have an input textbox where the user inserts a number
<input id="individual_nid" oninput="getIndividualName(this.value)" />
this textbox fires on the fly the following ajax function
function getIndividualName(val)
{
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url:"get_individual_name.php",
data: 'individual_nid='+val,
success: function(data){
$("#individual_name_fetch").html(data);
}
});
}
in this function, I pass the user's input to the get_individual_name.php page.
in the get_individual_name.php page, I have a PHP script that searches for the inserted number in the database and gets the corresponding individual name and fetches it to the id="individual_name_fetch" div.
the PHP script in the get_individual_name.php page looks like this:
$q = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT * FROM table WHERE national_id = '".$_POST['individual_nid']."' ");
if(mysqli_num_rows($q) == 1)
{
while($r = mysqli_fetch_assoc($q))
{
echo $individual_name = $r['individual_name'];
}
}
else
{
echo $individual_name = 'Not in db';
}
up to here everything is fine
What I need to do now...
If the searched user founded in the db (mysqli_num_rows($q) == 1) then I want to display the other inputs div id="other_inputs fields" in the form. and if not, then the other_inputs fields div hides again
How can I accomplish this?
please be aware that the ajax function and the PHP script run on the fly
NOTE & UPDATE
the script's output will be HTML code, for example
if the result found the output will be:
<span style="color: green;"><i class="fa fa-check fa-fw fa-lg"></i> <?=$individual_name;?></span>
OR
in case no result found:
<span style="color: red;"><i class="fa fa-times fa-fw fa-lg"></i> No user found.</span>
What I am thinking about is to assign a variable e.g. $show_extra_fields = true or $show_extra_fields = false and pass it back to the ajax function and from there I check the value of the $show_extra_fields variable and based on the value I show/hide the other fields div.
is this possible?

To do what you're asking you would add show and hide functions to the AJAX callback:
function getIndividualName(val)
{
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url:"get_individual_name.php",
data: 'individual_nid='+val,
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data){
$("#individual_name_fetch").html(data);
if(data[0] != 'Not in db') {
$('#other_inputs').show();
} else {
$('#other_inputs').hide();
}
}
});
}
Keep in mind that ID's Must Be Unique, specifically because it will cause problems in JavaScript and CSS when you try to interact with those elements. ID's must not have spaces in them.
EDIT: Return JSON with PHP (CAUTION: Little Bobby says your script is at risk for SQL Injection Attacks. Learn about prepared statements for MySQLi. Even escaping the string is not safe!)
$q = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT * FROM table WHERE national_id = '".$_POST['individual_nid']."' ");
$json = array();
if(mysqli_num_rows($q) == 1)
{
while($r = mysqli_fetch_assoc($q))
{
$json[] = $r['individual_name'];
}
}
else
{
$json[] = 'Not in db';
}
echo json_encode($json);

You can do that using JavaScript. Check the AJAX response then take an action depending on this response.
Note: Don't use spaces in the id in your html
success: function(data){
$("#individual_name_fetch").html(data);
if (data === 'Not in db') {
document.getElementById('other_inputs_fields').style.display = 'none';
} else {
document.getElementById('other_inputs_fields').style.display = 'block';
}
}

The quick fix: Don't produce any output in case there is no data. Just check for empty string in response.
success: function(data) {
if (data === "") {
$('#other_inputs_fields').hide();
$("#individual_name_fetch").html('No data available');
} else {
$('#other_inputs_fields').show();
$("#individual_name_fetch").html(data);
}
}
Long term solution: This code still looks OK for student's assignments work or hobby project. But in all other cases, you better look for some WEB framework, like Symfony https://symfony.com/. Frameworks will help you to build your application in a more structured way, offering the best practices our of the box, including the security issues pointed out in comments.

"Like" system PHP, using AJAX

i want to make like/unlike system with PHP and jQuery/AJAX..
Here is my form in PHP foreach... Here i have own id's for every form;
<?php foreach ($vid as $var) { ?>
<form class="classform" action="functions/videolike.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="id" value="<?php echo $var['video_id'];?>">
<button class="submitbuttonclass"type="submit">Like</button>
</form>
<?php } ?>
Here is my Ajax script;
<script>
// this is the id of the submit button
$(".submitbuttonclass").click(function() {
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: "functions/videolike.php",
data: $(".classform").serialize(), // serializes the form's elements.
success: function(data)
{
alert(data); // show response from the php script.
}
});
return false; // avoid to execute the actual submit of the form.
});
</script>
the codes are working but not correctly;
When i click "like" button is working good, i cheked the database, caunting, inserting, deleting , working good...
But I want to make this with AJAX becouse, refreshing page is stopping the video when user watching video if he click the like button. Video is preloading becouse page refresh...
After i add my ajax script its working. But when i am clicking the like button, AJAX is posting to PHP, only the last id in the foreach loop,
THE Question?
How to make AJAX to get all of the id's in PHP foreach loop ??
And this is my videolike.php if you want to check;
<?php
session_start();
if($_POST['id'] && #$_SESSION["userid"]){
require_once "connectdb.php";
$id = $_POST["id"];
$VLcheck = "SELECT count(*) FROM `videolikes` WHERE user_id = ? AND liked_vid_id=?";
$reslike = $conn->prepare($VLcheck);
$reslike->execute(array($_SESSION["userid"],$id));
$VLrow = $reslike->fetchColumn();
echo $VLrow;
if ($VLrow > 0){
$VLcheck = "DELETE FROM `videolikes` WHERE user_id = ? AND liked_vid_id=?";
$reslike = $conn->prepare($VLcheck);
$reslike->execute(array($_SESSION["userid"],$id));
} else {
$curentsess= $_SESSION["userid"];
$INSlike = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO videolikes(user_id, liked_vid_id)
VALUES('$curentsess','$id')");
$INSlike->execute();
}} else {die;}
?>

As you have a lot forms with class .classform, so how do you think your script should select the proper one?
The asnwer is - script can't, you should help it). Use .closest function to find closest <form> for a clicked button:
$(".submitbuttonclass").click(function() {
var form = $(this).closest("form");
// or find closest element with class `classform`
//var form = $(this).closest(".classform");
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: "functions/videolike.php",
data: form.serialize(), // serializes the form's elements.
success: function(data)
{
alert(data); // show response from the php script.
}
});
return false; // avoid to execute the actual submit of the form.
});

Ajax POST is not posting onclick to current page

Alright so this has been bugging me for a long time now... I have tried everything but I cant get it to work!
So what I want to have is a link that acts as a button, and once you click it, it POSTs an ID number of the button in the form "{ 'id' : id }"
edit-homepage.php:
<script>
$(function() { // document ready
$('a.inactive').on('click', function(event) {
event.preventDefault(); // instad of return false
var id = $(this).data('id');
// use $.post shorthand instead of $.ajax
$.post('edit-homepage.php', {id: id}, function(response) {
// after you get response from server
editSlide(id);
});
});
});
</script>
The a href button is created using PHP and I want it to call the ajax function postID( id ) which will post the id so that later I can populate a form via PHP using the posted id.
edit-homepage.php:
echo '<li><a class="inactive" id="slide-'.$info["id"].
'" onClick="postID('.$info["id"].'); editSlide('.$info["id"].'); return false;">'
.'<img src="../images/'.$info["img"].'" width="175"/><p>Edit Slide '
. $info["id"] .'</p></a></li>';
Currently, when I click the link, it opens the alert but it is EMPTY or Undefined. It is supposed to display "ID: 1" for example if the link clicked has a ID of 1.
edit-homepage.php:
<script>
function editSlide($id) {
<?PHP
if (isset ($_POST['id'])) {
echo "alert('success!2');";
}$id = !empty($_POST['id']) ? $_POST['id'] : '';
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM slider WHERE id='$id'") or die(mysql_error());
$info = mysql_fetch_array( $data );?>
document.getElementById("edit-slide-id").innerHTML="Edit Slide #"+$id;
document.getElementById("edit-form").style.display = "block";
document.getElementById("short-title").value="<?PHP echo $info['s_title']; ?>";
}
</script>
Thanks!

With jquery, you don't need to use attributes to attach events, like that:
$(function() { // document ready
$('a.inactive').on('click', function(event) {
event.preventDefault(); // instad of return false
var id = $(this).data('id');
// use $.post shorthand instead of $.ajax
$.post('edit-homepage.php', {id: id}, function(response) {
alert('ID:' + response);
// after you get response from server
editSlide(id);
});
});
});
As of server side, try replacing raw
<?PHP echo $_POST['id']; ?>
With
<?php echo !empty($_POST['id']) ? $_POST['id'] : '' ?>
You likely get notice about Undefined index id, which breaks javascript if there is no post data.
UPDATE
edit-homepage.php shold be separated something like that:
if(!empty($_POST)) {
// here you process your post data and return
// only wenever you want to pass to script
// not all the html
} else {
// here you output html and scripts, but don't do request processing
}
You should always remember, that your HTML rendering must always be separated from your logic. It is better to put views in separate files from logic, though it is not required, it is much easier to debug and maintain.

You can not include PHP code that is supposedly to run after the ajax call. The PHP code will be run only to generate the page. Anything you want to include in alert should be provided in the ajax response, in your case the data variable.

You need to use alert('ID: ' + id).
The $_POST['id'] part of the script does not react to the AJAX request. It is whatever the $_POST['id'] value is when the script is output to the browser (i.e. when the page is first loaded).
You will see this if you view the source.

alert ("ID:"+data);
then only you will get response
or
alert("ID"+id);
this will alert the id passes to function

http://jsfiddle.net/U54ME/
$(".checkthisclass").click(function() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "edit-homepage.php",
data: { 'id' : $(this).attr("slideid"); },
success: function(data) {
alert(data);
}
});
}
});
--
<ul>
<li><a class="inactive checkthisclass" id="slide-5" slideid = "5" ><img src="http://blog.entelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/stackoverflow-logo.png" width="175"/><p>Edit Slide 5</p></a></li>
</ul>