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    <p>I need to store the variable from the json string with name 'msg' in my database, but I am not able to catch it with $msg = $_POST['msg']; How do I catch it correctly?</p> <p>Moreover I would like to echo the contents of $msg straightaway on the webpage.</p> <h2>HTML</h2> <pre><code>&lt;div id="addCommentContainer"&gt; &lt;form id="addCommentForm" action=""&gt; &lt;textarea name="msg" id="msg" cols="82" title="Your comment" rows="2"&gt;Your comment...&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="author" title="name" value="&lt;?php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?&gt;" id="author" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;div id="personal"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="city" id="city" title="city (optional)" value="" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="email" id="email" title="e-mail (optional)" value="" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="url" id="url" title="website (optional)" value="" /&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" id="cam_id" class="hd" name="cam_id" value="&lt;?php echo $cam_id ?&gt;" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;input type="submit" id="submit" value="Comment" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <h2>JavaScript</h2> <pre><code>//if submit button is clicked $('#submit').click(function () { //start the ajax $.ajax({ //this is the php file that processes the data url: "/comment/insert.php", type: "POST", data: $("#addCommentForm").serialize(), contentType: "json", //success success: function (html) { //if returned 1/true (process success) if (html == 1) { //show the success message $('.done').fadeIn('slow'); //if process.php returned 0/false (send mail failed) } else alert('Sorry, unexpected error. Please try again later.'); } }); //cancel the submit button default behaviours return false; }); </code></pre> <h2>PHP</h2> <pre><code> $msg = $_POST['msg']; // echo $msg; $author = $_POST['author']; $email = $_POST['email']; $url = $_POST['url']; $city = $_POST['city']; // include ("/home/sionvalais/domains/skiweather.eu/public_html/v3/functions/strip.php"); if ($cam_id&gt;1) { if ($author=='NAME') { $author='Anonymous'; } $host = gethostbyaddr($ip); // mysql_query ("set character_set_results='utf8'"); mysql_query("INSERT INTO sv_review (author,email,msg,cam_id,url,lud) VALUES ( N'".$author."', '".$email."', N'".$msg."', '".$cam_id."', '".$url."', NOW() )"); } </code></pre>
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