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  1. POHow to access individual values of form data, passed from an HTML page with jQuery.ajax(), inside a PHP script?
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    copied!<p>I'm passing form data to a PHP script for processing via JS(<code>jQuery.ajax()</code>). </p> <p>Problem is - I can't figure out a way to access individual form control values inside PHP( e.g. <code>$_POST['zipcode']</code> ). </p> <p>Instead I can only access the data with <code>$_POST['form']</code>, which is an entire form represented as one long string( e.g. <code>string(89)"color=red&amp;color=blue&amp;zipcode=12345..."</code> ). </p> <p>How can I access individual values of form data inside PHP script passed from a HTML form via JS?</p> <p><em>index.php(form)</em></p> <pre><code> &lt;form id="myform"&gt; &lt;select name="color" id="color"&gt; &lt;option value="Red"&gt;Red&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="Green"&gt;Green&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="Blue"&gt;Blue&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type="text" id="zipcode" name="zipcode" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p><em>index.php(JS)</em></p> <pre><code>$('#myform').on('submit', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); $.ajax({ type: 'POST', dataType: 'html', url : 'PHPscript.php', data: {form : $('#myform').serialize()} }).done(function(data) { var myJSONresult = data; alert(myJSONresult); }); }); </code></pre> <p><em>PHPscript</em></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if(isset($_POST["form"])){ $form = $_POST["form"]; $myzipcode = $_POST['zipcode']; // won't work; will be null or empty echo json_encode($form); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> <em>The zipcode field:</em></p> <pre><code>$("#zipcode").focus(function(){ if(this.value == "zipcode"){ $(this).val(""); } }).blur(function(){ if(this.value == ""){ $(this).val("zipcode"); } }); </code></pre>
 

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