Ajax requests with jQuery.post()

This is one of the reasons I still like jQuery.

I’m sure all the new frameworks do similar stuff, but things like this are so simple with jQuery. Anyway, jQuery.post() is a shorthand Ajax function. It’s the equivalent of doing this:

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: url,
  data: data,
  success: success,
  dataType: dataType
});

So, with it, you can send an Ajax request this easily:

var posting = $.post(url, data);

Then, handle the response like this:

posting.done(function(data) {
    // Handle data here
});

Or, all together like this:

$.post( "process.php", function( data ) {
  $( ".result" ).html( data );
});

It really is pretty simple.

Anyway, in my latest course I show you how to grab the form data from an HTML form, send it to a PHP script to be processed, generate a response in JSON and then handle that response in your jQuery to create an Ajax-powered quote request form on your website.

If you haven’t got into Ajax or jQuery, this is a good place to start because you get to see the whole request “loop” in a simple script that you can understand even if you’ve never done any of this before.

And, that’s along with learning about CSS Grid, CSS transitions, a little PHP and more.

Anyway, link to get no-cost access to the course here: https://skl.sh/2xM6Y3l

Later,

John