I can't get the POST values for 'name' and 'email' onclick to pass to my PHP. $_POST has no values in the array. I think I need to add variables to the Javascript but I can't get the syntax correct. Please help, thanks!
<script>
function _(el){ return document.getElementById(el);
}
function uploadFile(){
var file = _("file1").files[0];
var formdata = new FormData();
formdata.append("file1", file);
var ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.upload.addEventListener("progress", progressHandler, false);
ajax.addEventListener("load", completeHandler, false);
ajax.addEventListener("error", errorHandler, false);
ajax.addEventListener("abort", abortHandler, false);
ajax.open("POST", "file_upload_parser.php");
ajax.send(formdata);
}
function progressHandler(event){
_("loaded_n_total").innerHTML = "Uploaded "+event.loaded+" bytes of "+event.total;
var percent = (event.loaded / event.total) * 99;
_("progressBar").value = Math.round(percent);
_("status").innerHTML = Math.round(percent)+"% uploaded... please wait";
}
function completeHandler(event){
_("status").innerHTML = event.target.responseText;
_("progressBar").value = 0;
}
function errorHandler(event){
_("status").innerHTML = "Upload Failed";
}
function abortHandler(event){
_("status").innerHTML = "Upload Aborted";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<table width="700" border="0">
<form id="upload_form" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<tr>
<td><strong>Name:</strong></td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" id="name" size="35"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Email:</strong></td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" id="email" size="35"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Select File:</strong></td>
<td><input type="file" name="file1" id="file1"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<input type="button" value="Upload File" onclick="uploadFile()">
<progress id="progressBar" value="0" max="100" style="width:300px;"></progress>
<h3 id="status"></h3>
<p id="loaded_n_total"></p>
</td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
</center>
This is the correct answer:
formdata.append("name", document.getElementById('name').value);
formdata.append("email", document.getElementById('email').value);
So the full block to append from above would look like this:
function uploadFile(){
var file = _("file1").files[0];
var formdata = new FormData();
formdata.append("file1", file);
formdata.append("name", document.getElementById('name').value);
formdata.append("email", document.getElementById('email').value);
var ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.upload.addEventListener("progress", progressHandler, false);
ajax.addEventListener("load", completeHandler, false);
ajax.addEventListener("error", errorHandler, false);
ajax.addEventListener("abort", abortHandler, false);
ajax.open("POST", "file_upload_parser.php");
ajax.send(formdata);
}