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Get input field value in same page without refreshing page php

I am trying to send my input value to a code segment in the same page, but it doesn't work. Right now, I can't get the value in the code segment. This is my current code:
<?php
if ($section == 'codesegment') {
if ($_GET['hour']) {
echo $_GET['hour'];
//here i want call my method to update db with this value of hour...
}
if ($section == 'viewsegment') {
?>
<form id="my_form" action="#" method="Get">
<input name="hour" id="hour" type="text" />
<input id="submit_form" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<script>
var submit_button = $('#submit_form');
submit_button.click(function() {
var hour = $('#hour').val();
var data = '&hour=' + hour;
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: '',
data: data,
success:function(html){
update_div.html(html);
}
});
});
</script>
Any advice?

If you want to get the value without refresh your page you have to use javascript, you can try this:
$('#hour').onchange = function () {
//type your code here
}
By the way, your php script is server side, according to this, you can't use the value without post/submit/refresh

Whenever you are using
<input type="submit">
it sends the data to the action of the form, so whenever you are clicking the submit button before the onclick function gets called, it sends the data to the action and the page gets refreshed. So instead of using input element try something like this
<button id="submit_form"> Submit </button>

two things,
1. as yesh said you need to change the input submit to button type=button and add an onClick function on that button. Or you can give a the javascript function inside a function line function sampleFn(){} and call this function onSubmit of form.
2. You need to give the javascript inside document.ready function since the script execute before the dom loading and the var submit_button = $('#submit_form'); may not found. In that case there will be an error in the browser console.
Try to add errors in the post since it will help to debug easily.

It's not possible to do on the same page. you can write ajax call to another page with data where you can do the functions with the data.
Something like this
//form.php
<form id="hour-form">
<input type="text" name="hour" id="hour">
<input type="submit" name="hour-submit" >
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$(document).on('submit', '#hour-form', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var data = $('#hour').val();
$.ajax({
url: "post.php",
method: "POST",
data: {'hour':data},
success: function(data)
{
//if you want to do some js functions
if(data == "success")
{
alert("Data Saved");
}
}
});
});
});
//post.php
if(isset($_POST['hour']))
{
// do the php functions
echo "success";
}

jQuery .submit() not working after ajax response

I was trying to call jQuery.submit() function after ajax response. Where ajax response contains a form. But it couldn't call jQuery.submit() function when i submit the form without refresh.
I prepend the form with the existing code after successfull ajax response
success: function(data) {
event.preventDefault();
$(".name_wrapper").prepend('<form class="replyName"><textarea name="name" placeholder="Write your name"></textarea><button type="submit" class=" btn btn-primary">Reply your name</button></form>');
},
error: function(data) {}
So after adding the form to the existing code. When i tried to submit the form it's got refresh instead of calling the function. How to make jQuery.submit() workable from ajax response?
$(".replyName").submit(function(event) {
alert(event.currentTarget[0].value);
});

You should place the submit event after you prepend the form. Because event's are only binded to the elements after the DOM is loaded.
And because the prepend the form dynamically, jQuery doesn't know which element it has to submit, because it didn't exist at the time it binded the event.
success: function(data) {
event.preventDefault();
$(".name_wrapper").prepend('<form class="replyName"><textarea name="name" placeholder="Write your name"></textarea><button type="submit" class=" btn btn-primary">Reply your name</button></form>');
$( ".replyName").submit(function( event ) {
alert(event.currentTarget[0].value);
event.preventDefault();
});
},
error: function(data) {}

Since the form is not created in the document, you cant listen to submit event, unless you put the event listener after you prepend form into the dom
success: function(data) {
event.preventDefault();
$(".name_wrapper").prepend('<form class="replyName"><textarea name="name" placeholder="Write your name"></textarea><button type="submit" class=" btn btn-primary">Reply your name</button></form>');
$(".replyName").submit(function(event) {
alert(event.currentTarget[0].value);
});
},
error: function(data) {}
You can also handle the event from body dom
$('body').on('submit', '.replyName', function(e){
// code here
});

There are two thing you can do:
Either you can rebind the click function like this:
success: function(data) {
event.preventDefault();
$(".name_wrapper").prepend('<form class="replyName"><textarea name="name" placeholder="Write your name"></textarea><button type="submit" class=" btn btn-primary">Reply your name</button></form>');
$('button').bind('click', function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
alert(event.currentTarget[0].value);
});
},
error: function(data) {}
or you can try this
$('button').on('click', function(e){
// code here
});

[jQuery]Page refreshes after appending html with .html()

So I'm trying to get some data from the server with php but as soon as it's loaded onto the page it seems to reload the page and make it disappear again.
My html:
<form id="searchForm">
<input name="searchValue" type="text" id="search">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Zoek op klant" onclick="getKlanten()">
</form>
<div id="klanten">
</div>
My js:
function getKlanten(){
var value = $("#search").val();
$.ajax({
url:'includes/getKlanten.php',
async: false,
type: 'POST',
data: {'searchValue':value},
success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
{
$('#klanten').html(data);
},
error: function () {
$('#klanten').html('Bummer: there was an error!');
}
});
}
Can anyone help? It gets put into the div but then instantly disappears again.

Firstly, avoid inline click handlers. The page reloads because by default a form submits the form content to the url specified in action attribute.
Instead attach an event to the form and use preventDefault to avoid the page from refreshing. Do something like this
$('#searchForm').on('submit', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
// your ajax request.
});
Or attach an event to input button like this
$('input[type="submit"]').on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
// your ajax request
});
Read more about preventDefault here

Prevent page reload and redirect on form submit ajax/jquery

I have looked through all the similar posts out there but nothing seems to help. This is what I have
HTML:
<section>
<form id="contact-form" action="" method="post">
<fieldset>
<input id="name" name="name" placeholder="Name" type="text" />
<input id="email" name="email" placeholder="Email" type="text" />
<textarea id="comments" name="comments" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
<div class="12u">
Send Message
Clear Form
</div>
<ul id="response"></ul>
</fieldset>
</form>
</section>
JavaScript/jQuery:
function sendForm() {
var name = $('input#name').val();
var email = $('input#email').val();
var comments = $('textarea#comments').val();
var formData = 'name=' + name + '&email=' + email + '&comments=' + comments;
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'js/sendEmail.php',
data: formData,
success: function(results) {
$('ul#response').html(results);
}
}); // end ajax
}
What I am unable to do is prevent the page refresh when the #form-button-submit is pressed. I tried return false; I tried preventDefault() and every combination including return false; inside the onClick. I also tried using input type="button" and type="submit" instead and same result. I can't solve this and it is driving be nuts. If at all possible I would rather use the hyperlink due to some design things.
I would really appreciate your help on this.

Modify the function like this:
function sendForm(e){
e.preventDefault();
}
And as comment mentions, pass the event:
onclick = sendForm(event);
Update 2:
$('#form-button-submit').on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var name = $('input#name').val(),
email = $('input#email').val(),
comments = $('textarea#comments').val(),
formData = 'name=' + name + '&email=' + email + '&comments=' + comments;
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'js/sendEmail.php',
data: formData,
success: function(results) {
$('ul#response').html(results);
}
});
});

function sendForm(){
// all your code
return false;
}

I was also bit engaged in finding solution to this problem, and so far the best working method I found was this-
Try using XHR to send request to any url, instead of $.ajax()...I know it sounds bit weird but try it out!
Example-
<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="test-form">
var testForm = document.getElementById('test-form');
testForm.onsubmit = function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
// POST to any url
request.open('POST', some_url, false);
var formData = new FormData(document.getElementById('test-form'));
request.send(formData);
This would send your data successfully ...without page reload.

Have you tried using
function sendForm(event){
event.preventDefault();
}

Simple and Complete working code
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#contact-form").submit(function() {
$("#loading").show().fadeIn('slow');
$("#response").hide().fadeOut('slow');
var frm = $('#contact-form');
$.ajax({
type: frm.attr('method'),
url: 'url.php',
data: frm.serialize(),
success: function (data) {
$('#response').html(data);
$("#loading").hide().fadeOut('slow');
$("#response").slideDown();
}, error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
console.log(" The following error occured: "+ textStatus, errorThrown );
} });
return false;
});
});
</script>
#loading could be an image or something to be shown when the form is processing, to use the code simply create a form with ID contact-form

Another way to avoid the form from being submitted is to place the button outside of the form. I had existing code that was working and created a new page based on the working code and wrote the html like this:
<form id="getPatientsForm">
Enter URL for patient server
<br/><br/>
<input name="forwardToUrl" type="hidden" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/patient/patientList.jsp" />
<input name="patientRootUrl" size="100"></input>
<br/><br/>
<button onclick="javascript:postGetPatientsForm();">Connect to Server</button>
</form>
This form cause the undesirable redirect described above. Changing the html to what is shown below fixed the problem.
<form id="getPatientsForm">
Enter URL for patient server
<br/><br/>
<input name="forwardToUrl" type="hidden" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/patient/patientList.jsp" />
<input name="patientRootUrl" size="100"></input>
<br/><br/>
</form>
<button onclick="javascript:postGetPatientsForm();">Connect to Server</button>

I expect anyone to understand my idea very well as it's a very simple idea.
give your required form itself an id or you can get it by any other way you prefer.
in the form input "submit" call an onclick method from your javascript file.
in this method make a variable refer to your from id the addEventListener on it and make a preventDefault method on "submit" not on "click".
To clarify that see this:
// element refers to the form DOM after you got it in a variable called element for example:
element.addEventListener('submit', (e) => {
e.preventDefault();
// rest of your code goes here
});
The idea in brief is to deal with the form by submit event after dealing with submit button by click event.
Whatever is your needs inside this method, it will work now without refresh :)
Just be sure to deal with ajax in the right way and you will be done.
Of course it will work only with forms.

The way I approached this: I removed the entire form tag and placed all the form elements such as input, textarea tags inside a div and used one button to call a javascript function. Like this:
<div id="myform">
<textarea name="textarea" class="form-control">Hello World</textarea>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary"
onclick="javascript:sendRequest()">Save
changes</button>
<div>
Javascript:
function sendRequest() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/some/url/edit/",
data: {
data: $("#myform textarea").val()
},
success: function (data, status, jqXHR) {
console.log(data);
if (data == 'success') {
$(`#mymodal`).modal('hide');
}
}
});
return true;
}
I thought why use a form when we are sending the actual request using AJAX. This approach may need extra effort to do things like resetting the form elements but it works for me.
Note:
The above answers are more elegant than this but my use case was a little different. My webpage had many forms and I didn't think registering event listeners to every submit button was a good way to go. So, I made each submit button call the sendRequest() function.

submit form and check for complete without submit button

I need to submit a form and check for its completion without using the submit button.
I managed to submit it trough document.getElementById('logoForm').submit();, but now I need to call a function if the form was successfully submitted.
My form:
<form name="logoForm" id="logoForm" method="POST" target="frame" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="includes/uplLogo.php">
Submit function:
$("#file1").change(function() {
document.getElementById('logoForm').submit();
//setTimeout(reloadImg, 2000) this was how i called the next function but its not safe at all
alert('submited');
});
The function I want to be called on a successful submit:
function reloadImg(){
var exists = document.getElementById('AppId').value;
$.post("includes/step_img.php", {id: exists}, function(data){
document.getElementById('imgDiv').innerHTML=data;
});
}

You need to submit the form using AJAX, otherwise you will have a page reload, rendering all your JS void.
This is how you could do it with jQuery
//bind to submit
$("#logoForm").submit(function(e)
{
var postData = $(this).serializeArray();
var formURL = $(this).attr("action");
$.ajax(
{
url : formURL,
type: "POST",
data : postData,
success:function(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
{
reloadImg();
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown)
{
//if fails
alert("ERROR");
}
});
e.preventDefault(); //STOP default action
e.unbind(); //unbind. to stop multiple form submit.
});
$("#logoForm").submit(); //Submit the FORM

ok i got it working!!
$("document").ready(function(){
$("#file1").change(function() {
//bind to submit
$("#logoForm").submit(function(e)
{
var formURL = $(this).attr("action");
$.ajax(
{
url : formURL,
type: "POST",
data: new FormData( this ),
processData: false,
contentType: false,
success:function(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
{
reloadImg();
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown)
{
//if fails
alert("ERROR");
}
});
e.preventDefault(); //STOP default action
e.unbind(); //unbind. to stop multiple form submit.
});
$("#logoForm").submit(); //Submit the FORM
});
});
function reloadImg(){
var exists = document.getElementById('AppId').value;
$.post("includes/step_img.php", {id: exists}, function(data){
document.getElementById('imgDiv').innerHTML=data;
});
}
but once i click the file input i have to reload the page to make it work again... any ideas how to work around this?

As Regent said: "Amazing mix of pure JavaScript and jQuery"
if you will be using jquery first of all you will need to include the jquery library, I don't know if you did that.
Also, if you are working with jquery try to use all that jquery provide you to write less code.
Seeing your code I am assuming that you have a form with a input type file into. And when a file is loaded to the field, you want to submit the form. Also the form is targetted to a frame, so I am assuming that you have an iframe element there too.
To know if the form was successfully submitted you can use an ajax request but in this case your are sending files with the form, so you can not use an ajax request.
You can return a javascript code in your response that will be executed from into the iframe so, you can access to the parent element to do that you want
I have modified a little bit your code to integrate jQuery at all.
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/latest/jquery.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
jQuery("#file1").change(function() {
jQuery('#logoForm').submit();
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="logoForm" id="logoForm" method="POST" target="frame" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="includes/uplLogo.php">
<input type="file" name="file1" id="file1" />
</form>
<iframe name="frame"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
Then in your includes/uplLogo.php you need to return the javascript code to execute a similar of reloadImg()
So, in your includes/uplLogo.php you could have:
<?php
...
Your code here
...
if($all_is_ok) { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/latest/jquery.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
var id = jQuery('#AppId', window.parent.document).val();
jQuery.post("includes/step_img.php", {id: id}, function(data) {
jQuery('#imgDiv', window.parent.document).html(data);
});
});
</script>
<?php } ?>
I have not tested it because I just wrote it but I think that works.

Try to comment this line: e.unbind();
Try also to add a log just after the input file changes, and verify if you can see the log in the js console:
...
$("#file1").change(function() {
console.log('input file changed');
//bind to submit
...

for those who will need this in the future the problem was:
$("#file1").change(function()
i just changed that to:
function changed()
and add it to input on onchange method!