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JavaScript

Posted by Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points

Ajax

Hi,

Going over the Ajax course again to get it all refreshed and I hear Dave talking about using Ajax to send the data to a .php file (example), and now I'm wondering why you would use Ajax to send the data from a form to a .php file/script when you could just pass the action and method attributes to the form-tag?

1 Answer

Ashley Carpenter
Ashley Carpenter
13,393 Points
Ashley Carpenter
Ashley Carpenter
13,393 Points

Hey. You might not want to pass an input parameter to a php file, you may want to trigger a php script on the web server following a users interaction with your web page or something like that.

With any form of development there's more than 1 way to skin a cat, but just because you can do something it doesn't mean that it's the best way.