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    copied!<p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>this is the screenshot of the alert:</p> <p><a href="http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5078/screenshot20091222at346.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">alt text http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5078/screenshot20091222at346.png</a></p> <p>i am using the following JQuery function to successfully POST data to the user_submit.php file, its just that the php file is <strong>unable to receive the data.</strong></p> <pre><code> $(function() { $("#submit_js").click(function() { $.post("user_submit.php", { comment: $("#comment").val() }); }); }); </code></pre> <p>upon finishing the Firebug consoloe shows this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;body&gt; Your vote was successfully registered!any text but this &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>I am pasting the entire user_submit.php file here:</p> <pre><code> &lt;html&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;?php $vote = $_REQUEST['vote']; $aid = $vote; //$comment = $_REQUEST['#comment']; //$comment = print_r($_POST); $comment = htmlspecialchars($_POST["comment"]); //$comment = $_POST['comment']; //echo htmlspecialchars($comment); //$comment = $_POST['comment']; //echo $comment; // include configuration file include('config.php'); // open database connection $connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die('ERROR: Unable to connect!'); // select database mysql_select_db($db) or die('ERROR: Unable to select database!'); // update vote counter $query = "UPDATE answers SET acount = acount + 1 WHERE aid = $vote"; $result = mysql_query($query); $cadd = "INSERT INTO comments (comment,aid) VALUES ('$comment', '$aid')"; mysql_query($cadd); // close connection mysql_close($connection); // print success message echo 'Your vote was successfully registered!'; echo $comment; //print_r(array_count_value($comment)); ?&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>please help me out. i have been stuck with this for hours now.</p> <p>**EDIT: As requested the HTML for the Submit Button **</p> <pre><code>&lt;div id="greetings"&gt; You are voting out &lt;b style="color: #00b0de;" id=roadiename&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Care to explain why?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;textarea name="textarea" id="comment" cols="38" rows="7"&gt;textarea&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href="#" id="submit_js"&gt;&lt;img src="images/submit.gif" style="border: none; float:right; padding-top: 10px;padding-right: 10px;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre>
 

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