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    copied!<p>Alright, so I am trying to make a [relatively] simple contact form that uses ajax and php to write that data into a database once the form is submitted. I don't get any errors in my javascript or my php but the problem seems to lie within the php not receiving the data that ajax is sending. <strong>HTML</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="" method="POST" id="contact"&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;First Name: &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Last Name: &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Email Address: &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="first_name" placeholder="Johnny"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="last_name" placeholder="Appleseed"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="email" placeholder="johnny@email.com"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Street Address:&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;What's Dirty?&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="address"&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;select name="job" form="contact"&gt; &lt;option value="house"&gt;House&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="roof"&gt;Roof&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="garage-shed"&gt;Garage/shed&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="other"&gt;Other&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Message: &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;textarea name="message" cols="80" rows="5"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;input type="submit" id="submit" name="send" value="Send!" class="send-button"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Javascript</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; $("#submit").click(function() { var data_string = $("#contact").serialize(); $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "database.php", data: data_string, success: function(){ alert(data_string); } }); }); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>PHP/MySQL</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $hostname = "foobase.db.9999.foobase.com"; $username = "foobase"; $dbname = "foobase"; $password = "password"; $con =mysqli_connect($hostname, $username, $password); //Connecting to database mysqli_connect($hostname, $username, $password) OR DIE ("Unable to connect to database! Please try again later."); mysqli_select_db($con, $dbname); if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error(); } else { echo "success!"; } //adding values into the database. $fname = $_POST['fname']; $lname = $_POST['lname']; $wholename = $fname . " " . $lname; $email = $_POST['email']; $address = $_POST['address']; $job = $_POST['job']; $message = $_POST['message']; mysqli_query($con, "INSERT INTO client_base (Name, Email, Address, Job)VALUES ('$wholename', '$email', '$address', '$job')"); </code></pre>
 

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