I'
m experiencing a strange behavior with PHP. Basically I want to require a class within a PHP script. I know it is straight forward and I did it before but when I do so, it change the behavior of my jquery (1.8.3) ajax response. I'
m running a wamp setup and my PHP version is 5.4.6.
Here is a sample as for my index.html
head (omitting the jquery js include)
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#submit').click(function(){
var action = $('#form').attr('action');
var form_data = {
fname: $('#fname').val(),
lname: $('#lname').val(),
phone: $('#phone').val(),
email: $('#email').val(),
is_ajax: 1
};
$.ajax({
type: $('#form').attr('method'),
url: action,
data: form_data,
success: function(response){
switch(response){
case 'ok':
var msg = 'data saved';
break;
case 'ko':
var msg = 'Oops something wrong happen';
break;
default:
var msg = 'misc:<br/>'+response;
break;
}
$('#message').html(msg);
}
});
return false;
});
});
</script>
body
<div id="message"></div>
<form id="form" action="handler.php" method="post">
<p>
<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" placeholder="fname">
<input type="text" name="lname" id="lname" placeholder="lname">
</p>
<p>
<input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" placeholder="phone">
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" placeholder="email">
</p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" id="submit">
</form>
And as for the handler.php file:
<?php
require('class/Container.php');
$filename = 'xml/memory.xml';
$is_ajax = $_REQUEST['is_ajax'];
if(isset($is_ajax) && $is_ajax){
$fname = $_REQUEST['fname'];
$lname = $_REQUEST['lname'];
$phone = $_REQUEST['phone'];
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$obj = new Container;
$obj->insertData('fname',$fname);
$obj->insertData('lname',$lname);
$obj->insertData('phone',$phone);
$obj->insertData('email',$email);
$tmp = $obj->give();
$result = $tmp['_obj'];
/*
Push data inside array
*/
$array = array();
foreach($result as $key => $value){
array_push($array,$key,$value);
}
$xml = simplexml_load_file($filename);
// check if there is any data in
if(count($xml->elements->data) == 0){
// if not, create the structure
$xml->elements->addChild('data','');
}
// proceed now that we do have the structure
if(count($xml->elements->data) == 1){
foreach($result as $key => $value){
$xml->elements->data->addChild($key,$value);
}
$xml->saveXML($filename);
echo 'ok';
}else{
echo 'ko';
}
}
?
The Container class:
<?php
class Container{
private $_obj;
public function __construct(){
$this->_obj = array();
}
public function addData($data = array()){
if(!empty($data)){
$oldData = $this->_obj;
$data = array_merge($oldData,$data);
$this->_obj = $data;
}
}
public function removeData($key){
if(!empty($key)){
$oldData = $this->_obj;
unset($oldData[$key]);
$this->_obj = $oldData;
}
}
public function outputData(){
return $this->_obj;
}
public function give(){
return get_object_vars($this);
}
public function insertData($key,$value){
$this->_obj[$key] = $value;
}
}
?
The strange thing is that my result always fall under the default switch statement and the ajax response fit both present statement. I noticed then if I just paste the Container class on the top of the handler.php file, everything works properly but it kind of defeat what I try to achieve.
I tried different way to include the Container class but it seem to be than the issue is specific to this current scenario.
I'
m still learning PHP and my guess is that I'
m missing something really basic. I also search on stackoverflow regarding the issue I'
m experiencing as well as PHP.net, without success.
Regards,
