Form doesn't send any data if form-file is loaded into index.php

[bonaca]

contact.php

... html form ...

$('#submit').click(function(){
$.post("mail.php", $("#contact").serialize(), function(response) {
$('#success').html(response);
});
return false;
}); 

mail.php is a separate file (for sending mail), and everything works in this arrangement.

 

But I need to load contact.php into index.php

$('#divR').load('chapters/contact.php'); 

so corresponding js line becomes

$.post("chapters/mail.php", $("#contact").serialize(), function(response) {... 

Submitting the form in this case response from mail.php is received, but POST array is empty, i.e. form doesn't send any data to mail.php !?

[Ch0cu3r]

Can not use php to include contact.php?

<?php include 'chapters/contact.php'; ?>

Using PHP include will return the raw php source code of contact.php. The PHP code in contact.php will be parsed at the same time as index.php.

 

If you use jquery $.load() function it'll only return the html source code of contact.php (the output).

[bonaca]

Can not use php to include contact.php?

 

Yes, i can, but in that case I must rearange the entire site. Is there any solution with $.load(), please ?

[Ch0cu3r]

Does contact.php contain PHP code? .load() will only return the output from this script, no PHP source code is returned.

 

For example if contact.php had in it

$myVar = 'abc';

And then in index.php you had 

echo $myVar; 

the variable $myVar will be undefined. PHP code will not be passed back to index.php

 

If contact.php contains no PHP code then you are fine to use .load.