Javascript to send form to PHP

Question

I am trying to get my HTML form to pass through Javascript that will then pass it to PHP that will send it to MySQL.

However I either get the page to load the JS file in the browser, or the PHP file to load in the browser.

Here is my HTML form:

<div class="form" id="form" onclick="submitForm()">
<form id='contactform' action="js/contactform.js" method="post" onSubmit="submitForm()">
<input type="text" id="name" placeholder="Name" autofocus required><br>
<input type="text" id="email" placeholder="Email" required><br>
<input type="tel" id="telephone" placeholder="Telephone"><br>
Enquiry : <input type="radio" id="subject" value="enquiry" required>
Booking : <input type="radio" id="subject" value="booking" required><br>
<textarea id="message" required rows="20" cols="20" placeholder="Enter your message and I will try to get back to you within 2 days."></textarea><br>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" class="submitbutton"/>
<input type="reset" name="clearbutton" value="Clear" class="clearbutton"/>
</form>
<div id="outcome"></div>

I want the outcome of the form submit placed into the "outcome" div

My JS code:

function getOutput() {
  getRequest(
      'php/getinfo.php', 
       drawOutput,
       drawError
  );
  return false;
}



// handles drawing an error message
function drawError () {
    var container = document.getElementById("content");
    container.innerHTML = 'Bummer: there was an error!';
}

// handles the response, adds the html
function drawOutput(responseText) {
    var container = document.getElementById("content");
    container.innerHTML = responseText;
}


// helper function for cross-browser request object
function getRequest(url, success, error) {
    var req = false;
    try{
        // most browsers
        req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } catch (e){
        // IE
        try{
            req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
        } catch (e) {
            // try an older version
            try{
                req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e){
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
    if (!req) return false;
    if (typeof success != 'function') success = function () {};
    if (typeof error!= 'function') error = function () {};
    req.onreadystatechange = function(){
        if(req .readyState == 4){
            return req.status === 200 ? 
                success(req.responseText) : error(req.status)
            ;
        }
    }
    req.open("GET", url, true);
    req.send(null);
    return req;
}
        function submitForm(){
            var name = document.getElementById('name').value;
            var booking = document.getElementById('subject').value;
            var enquiry = document.getElementById('subject').value;
            var email = document.getElementById('email').value;
            var telephone = document.getElementById('telephone').value;
            var message = document.getElementById('message').value;
            getRequest(
                'php/form.php?' + params, //URL for the PHP file
                procesOutput,
                processError
            );
            return false;
        }

        function processOutput(){
            var  container = document.getElementById('outcome');
            container.innerHTML = responseText; 
        }

        function processError(){
            alert("There has been an error, please try again"); 
        }

and my PHP code:

    $con=mysqli_connect("DBLocation","Username","Password",'DBName');

    if (mysqli_connect_errno()){
        die("Error: "  . mysqli_connect_error());
    }

    $result = mysqli_query($con,"INSERT INTO `Contact`(`Name`, `Email`, `Telephone`, `Enquiry`, `Booking`, `Message`) VALUES ([value-2],[value-3],[value-4],[value-5],[value-6],[value-7])");

    if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE){
        echo "Thank you for contacting us, I will replay to you soon!"; 
    } 

    else {
        echo "I'm sorry but an Error has occured. Please try again shortly";
    }

    mysql_close($conn);
?>

I've had a look at w3schools pages and some other questions on here but I can't seem to get my head around it.

Answer 1

A couple of things, first off what is getRequest? Second off, where is responseText defined? Third, I would check your console as I'm pretty sure there is an error in submitForm. I see lots of getElementByIds, but none of your inputs have ids associated with them:

<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" autofocus required>

Should be:

<input type="text" id="name" placeholder="Name" autofocus required>

Answer 2

Here is a demo in JSFiddle.

1. Remove onClick, onSubmit, action="js/contactform.js" method="post" attributes as you don't need them. Capture the form submit in js. How to? - link

2. Add id's on the form elements so than you can select them like:

var name = document.getElementById('name').value;

3. Make a $.post request with jQuery (How to? - Link) and handle the success and failure callbacks. (I don't understand why are you making a post request, I would recommend you a $.get request.

Answer 3

I believe you want to use Ajax, which you can easily use with jQuery.

I believe the answer for your question is right on this page: https://learn.jquery.com/ajax/ajax-and-forms/

If jQuery is new for you, you might want to read a little about jQuery: https://learn.jquery.com/about-jquery/

If you don't want to use jQuery, you can use directly XMLHttpRequest in javascript instead.