如何将正文从.js页发送到.php页

Question

I've been looking all over StackOverflow and other forum sites, but I still don't know how to acomplish what I'm doing.

I want to send personalized emails (can be text or html) in a website I'm developing.

I'm using ajax to send the list of mails, the subject and the body. The code looks like this

This is the .js

    function loadsentmail(){

var subject = document.getElementById("subject_title").value;
var content = tinyMCE.get('content').getContent();
var from = "somemail@mail.com";
var body = new Array();
body[0]=content;
$.ajax({
type:'POST',
url:'sendmail.php?mails='+mails+'&names='+names+'&idgroup='+idGrupo+'&subject='+subject+'&body='+body+'&from='+from+'&flag=1',
data: {},
            success:function(result){

                alert("Mail sent correctly");
                },
            error:function(){
                alert("Mail was not sent");
            }
});
}

This is the .php

$to = $_GET['mails'];
$names = $_GET['names'];
$subject=$_GET['subject'];
$from = $_GET['from'];
$body = $_GET['body'];
$flag=$_GET['flag'];
$groupId=$_GET['idgroup'];
echo $flag;
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "From: Some Company <somemail@somemail.com>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: somemail@somemail.com\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Return-path: somemail@somemail.com\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Cc: somemail@somemail.com\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Bcc: somemail@somemail.com\r\n";
switch($flag)
{
case 1:
    if (mail($to, $subject,$body,$headers)) {
        echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} 
    else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
    }
break;
} 

So far so good, I tested with small body, and it worked, but once I pasted a big html file, I got the following error

<h1>Request-URI Too Large</h1>
<p>The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity
limit for this server.<br />
</p>

What is the best practice to send a big Body from a .js to a .php?? I've search a lot throughout the internet but I still can find an answer. Please help me :S

Answer 1

$.ajax({
 type:'POST',
 url:'sendmail.php',
 data: {
  mails: mails,
  names: names,
  idgroup: idGrupo,
  subject: subject,
  body: body,
  from: from,
  flag:1
 },
 type: "POST",
 success:function(result){

    alert("Mail sent correctly");
 },
 error:function(){
    alert("Mail was not sent");
  }
});

Post will allow the larger data set and with jquery ajax you should send the data using the data object even if you use GET.

Also I believe (I'm a perl not a php dev so you will need to look this up) you will need to change your php to grab from the Post obj. $to = $_GET['mails']; will become $to = $_POST['mails']