I want to get day and month from a client's computer, and then pass it to PHP in two separate variables, which would result in something like this:
$day_num = 11;
$month_num = 12;
I need JavaScript function and PHP function to be separate files, and I need to pass the value not in the URL.
I would be grateful for a bit of help from an expert!
If you are using jQuery gettting it back to the server is super easy (if you do it without, see: How to make an AJAX call without jQuery?):
<script language="javascript">
var date = new Date(),
month = date.getMonth(),
day = date.getDate();
$.post('path-to-php.php', { day: day, month: month});
</script>
<?php
var_dump($_POST['day']);
var_dump($_POST['month']);
?>
path-to-php.php is the filename of your php file. It can be absolute or relative, depending on your application. If you wanted to post it to the same file, you could use this instead of path-to-php.php: <?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>
<head></head> tag of the page, like this: <script language="javascript" src="ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/…> - this example is using Google's CDN version, so you wouldn't have to host it yourself.With javascript:
function executeAjax() {
var date = new Date(),
var month = date.getMonth(),
var day = date.getDate();
var url="daymonth.php?month="+month+"&day="+day;
var objX=new XMLHttpRequest();
objX.open("GET",url,false);
objX.send(null);
var response=objX.responseText;
}
daymonth.php
<?php
$day=$_GET['day'];
$month=$_GET['month'];
?>
