I am trying to reset a session array in php with a function in jquery using a button. I would use a submit but I don't want the page to refresh. I tried to send a $.post request leaving the variables and return blank, and then sending a variable so I could use $_session[''] = array() but none of it worked. I have searched and can't find much about it just a lot on sending strings.
OK this is very simple to stop the page from refreshing you need to tell js to disable the default event i use jquery for this here is my code
Html & js
<html>
<head>
<title>Reseting a PHP $_SESSIO array with jquery function</title>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
function sessRest(){
$.post("rest.php", {x: "9845621"}).done(function(data){
alert("States: " + data);
});
}
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#target").click(function(event){
event.preventDefault();
sessRest();
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
<a href="#" id="target">Click to rest me</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
php code rest.php
<?php
session_start();
(string)$data = $_POST['x'];
if($data == "9845621"){
$_SESSION['gx'] = array();
return $_SESSION['gx']; //return the empty array to js
}else(
return "error";
)
?>
I hope this helps .
User below jquery to submit to php code
var requestData = { param: "value"};
$.ajax({
url: your_url/session_change.php,
type: "post",
dataType: "json" or what ever,
data: your_data,
success: function (data) {
}
});
You can end the session successfully on server side with an ajax call, but apart from reloading the page, you're not going to clear what information was loaded already on client side. The session information wont be there once you do reload, but there is no way around that.
You can, however, emulate what you want to do with javascript.
When you load your session information, echo it to the page as javascript variables, then you have full control on client side. Just beware of echoing sensitive information like passwords, obviously.
try this:
your html file should contain this jQuery file:
$('#button').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
jQuery.ajax({
url: 'http://yourwebsite.com/session.php'
}).done(function(data){
if(data=='reseted'){
//do anything...
}
else {
//do anything...
}
})
});
and in your session.php file:
<?php
session_start();
session_unset();
if($_SESSION == FALSE){
echo 'reseted';
}
else echo 'no';
?>
the answer was jquery $.post('reset.php');
in reset.php
$_SESSION['products'] = array();
?> this reset my session array when the reset button was clicked with no page refresh...
I had done this originally and forgot to include my core.php in the reset.php which contained my start session().. Thank you all for the help though.... great suggestions