HTML
<form action="https://php.tomgdow.com" method="POST" id="form_three">
<fieldset>
<legend>Information</legend>
<div>
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" name="param1" id="name" placeholder="name">
<span class="msg_name"></span>
</div>
<p class="radio-message">What is your fav color?</p>
<div class="box">
<div>
<label for="blue">Blue</label>
<input type="radio" name="userchoice" id="blue" value="blue">
</div>
<div>
<label for="green">Green</label>
<input type="radio" name="userchoice" id="green" value="green">
</div>
<div>
<label for="red">Red</label>
<input type="radio" name="userchoice" id="red" value="red" checked>
</div>
</div>
<input type="submit" class="submit" value="Submit Me!">
</fieldset>
<fieldset class="output">
<legend>Response</legend>
<div id="message"></div>
<div>
<label for="out-name" class="hidden" id="label-out-name">
Your name
</label>
<output for="name" id="out-name"></output>
</div>
<div>
<label for="out-choice" class="hidden" id="label-out-choice">
Your Favourite color
</label>
<output for="blue green red" id="out-choice"></output>
</div>
<div>
<label for="submitted-params" class="hidden" id="label-submitted-params">
Submitted params (POST)
</label><br>
<output for="name email" id="submitted-params"></output>
</div>
<div>
<label for="server-response" class="hidden" id="label-server-response">
Full Server Response
</label><br>
<output for="name,email" id="server-response"></output><br>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>
JavaScript
document.getElementById('form_three').addEventListener('submit', function (event) {
if (checkField(event, "name")) {
event.preventDefault();
var param1 = document.getElementById('form_three')[1].value;
var colors = document.getElementsByName("userchoice");
var color_val;
for (var i = 0; i < colors.length; i++) {
if (colors[i].checked) {
color_val = colors[i].value;
}
}
var params = generateParams('param1', param1, 'param2', color_val);
console.log("%c %s", "color:green", params)
document.getElementById("submitted-params").value = params;
document.getElementById("label-submitted-params").style.visibility = 'visible';
makePostRequest("https://php.tomgdow.com", params, ajaxCallMe());
}
});
function ajaxCallMe() {
return function ajax() {
let response = this.responseText;
let message = "Greetings from the PHP Server (POST Method)";
let responseArray = response.split('&');
document.getElementById('out-name').value = responseArray[0];
document.getElementById('out-choice').value = responseArray[1];
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = message;
document.getElementById('server-response').value = responseArray[0] + "&" +
responseArray[1] + "&" + responseArray[2]
console.log("%c %s", "color:red", response);
console.log("%c %s", "color:blue", responseArray[0]);
console.log("%c %s", "color:blue", responseArray[1]);
console.log("%c %s", "color:blue", responseArray[2]);
document.getElementById("label-out-name").style.visibility = "visible";
document.getElementById("label-out-choice").style.visibility = "visible";
document.getElementById("label-server-response").style.visibility = "visible";
};
}
document.getElementById('name').addEventListener('focus', function () {
document.getElementsByClassName('msg_name')[0].style.backgroundColor = "white";
document.getElementsByClassName('msg_name')[0].innerText = "";
});
javascript (helper functions)
function generateParams(...args) {
var tmp = "";
if (args.length < 3) { tmp += `${args[0]}=${args[1]}`; } else {
tmp += `${args[0]}=${args[1]}`;
for (let i = 2; i <
args.length; i += 2) { tmp += `&${args[i]}=${args[i + 1]}`; }
}
return tmp;
}
function makePostRequest(url, params, fn) {
let oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
oReq.addEventListener("load", fn);
oReq.open('POST', url);
oReq.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
// oReq.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
// oReq.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
oReq.send(params);
}
function checkField(event, in_id) {
event.preventDefault();
let tmp = document.getElementById(in_id);
if (tmp.value === '') {
var msgName = document.getElementsByClassName('msg_name')[0];
msgName.innerHTML = "!Required field";
msgName.style.backgroundColor = "red";
return false;
}
return true;
}
php (server)
// index.php (server)
<?php
echo
htmlspecialchars($_POST["param1"])."&"
.htmlspecialchars($_POST["param2"])."&"
.htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
?>