jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook

Using a jQuery .post() AJAX Request to Update Server Data

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var params = [{name:"user",value:"Brad"},               {name:"rating", value:"1"}]  $.post("setRating.php", params, myHandler);

Using jQuery to post data to the server is easy with the .post() helper method because .post() handles all the necessary headers in the background. You call the .post(url, params, handler(data)) method and pass in the url to the server location, parameter string, or object. Then you specify a handler to handle the data.

If you pass in an object, it needs to be a list of objects with name and value pairs. For example:

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var params = [{name:"user",value:"Brad"},               {name:"rating", value:"1"}] ...