So far, I have a basic form that gets 2 inputs. The submit button successfully adds the new record to the SQLite database but with the values from the input elements. I am definitely missing how to properly set this up in my JavaScript code but I just don't know how to implement it.
JavaScript
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
const items_url = "http://127.0.0.1:3000/items"
function addingItems(){
xhttp.open("POST", items_url, true);
// Value implementation here maybe...
console.log("Form button has been clicked for item entry submission");
console.log(xhttp);
xhttp.send();
}
HTML
<form method="POST" class="addItem">
<input type="text" placeholder="Title" name="item_title" required>
<input type="text" placeholder="Number" name="item_number" required>
<button id="submitItem" type="submit" form="addItem" value="Submit" onclick="addingItems()">Submit</button>
</form>
Please let me know if you need more information.
You need to add FormData
to ajax object in JavaScript:
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
const items_url = "http://127.0.0.1:3000/items"
function addingItems(){
xhttp.open("POST", items_url, true);
console.log("Form button has been clicked for item entry submission");
console.log(xhttp);
var form=new FormData()
form.append("item_title",document.getElementsByName("item_title")[0].value)
form.append("item_number",document.getElementsByName("item_number")[0].value)
xhttp.send(form);
}
<form method="POST" class="addItem">
<input type="text" placeholder="Title" name="item_title" required>
<input type="text" placeholder="Number" name="item_number" required>
<button id="submitItem" value="Submit" onclick="addingItems()">Submit</button>
</form>