I have a php page with a form, that has a button. When the button is clicked, a jquery function is run, which performs some validation tests, then submits the form using ajax. In the php script run by ajax, a cookie is set. Immediatly after the cookie is set, I then try to get the cookie value, which I echo from the script and spit out in the success function of the ajax request. The cookie value hasn't set.
Code is as follows.
mainpage.php
<script type=text/javascript>
$( document ).ready(function()
{
$('#submit_compare_stage1').click(function()
{
//Validation stuff
if (passed_validation)
{
var form_data = $('#compare_form').serialize(); //Collect query details into a form
$.ajax({
type: POST,
url: scripts/process_compare.php,
data: form_data,
success: function(data)
{
alert(data);
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown)
{
//Error stuff
}
});
}
return false;
});
});
</script>
<form name=compare_form id=compare_form action=>
....
<button id='submit_compare_stage1' name='submit_compare_stage1'>Next</button>
</form>
process_compare.php
<?php
//MySQL Stuff
makeCookie('cs', '2');
echo 'hi' . getCookie('cs', false);
echo success;
function makeCookie($name, $contents, $length = 3600)
{
// Create a new cookie
setcookie($name, $contents, time() + $length, '/');
}
function getCookie($name, $delete = true)
{
// Return the contents of a cookie and delete it if requested
$contents = $_COOKIE[$name];
if($delete) {
setcookie($name, '', time() - 3600, '/');
setcookie($name, '', time() - 3600);
}
return $contents;
}
?>
The ajax request is posting alert messages saying hisuccess so the cookie isn't being set.
I'm not sure if it's because the page needs refreshing or something else, but I do know the code used to work when we had a regular submit the form using action=/process_compare.php and an iframe to put results into.
Can anyone help?
