I have a basic html form and I'm trying to use jquery and json to pass the value of the form to PHP. I'm new at this, but I did a lot of research and I thought I had everything entered correct. The page no longer reloads when I hit submit (and that's the behavior I want), but I coded an javascript alert to see if the data is being passed and that alert is not working. I've been looking at this code for hours and I can't seem to find any errors. Can someone tell me why the alert is not working?
here is my main.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>leader</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class = "container">
<form action="post.php" method="post" id="add">
<input type="text" class="leader" name="name" placeholder="Leader">
<input type="submit" value="send" />
</form>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-ui-1.10.4.custom.js"></script>
<script src="globe.js"></script>
<ul id ="hours_zoned">
<li class="nine">9</li>
<li class="ten">10</li>
<li class="eleven">11</li>
<li class="twelve">12</li>
<li class="one">1</li>
<li class="two">2</li>
<li class="three">3</li>
<li class="four">4</li>
<li class="five">5</li>
<li class="six">6</li>
<li class="seven">7</li>
<li class="eight">8</li>
<li class="nine">9</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
here is my globe.js
$('#add').on('submit', function() {
var name = $('.leader').val();
$.ajax({
url: 'post.php',
dataType: 'json',
type: 'post',
data: name,
success: function (data) {
if(data.success) {
alert('the result is ' + data.result);
}
}
});
return false;
});
here's my post.php
<?php
header('Content-type: text/javascript');
$json = array(
'success' => false,
'result' => 0
);
if(isset($_POST['name'])) {
$name = $_POST['name'];
$json['success'] = true;
$json['result'] = $name;
}
echo json_encode($json);
?>
