Sending a POST Request from JavaScript
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); var params = "first=Brad&last=Dayley&email=brad@dayleycreations.com"; xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length); xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() { if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200) { alert("Email Updated: " + xmlhttp.responseText); } } xmlhttp.open("POST","setUserEmail.php",true); xmlhttp.send(params);
To send a POST request from JavaScript, you first need to implement an onreadystatechange event handler to handle the response or responseText values. For example:
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() ...
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