Ajax call to php function

Question

I'm trying to post to MySQL with jQuery and PHP:

jQuery:

var data = $("#prueba").text();
$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "insertar_mysql.php",
  data: {
    values: data
  },
  success: function(msg) {
    if (msg) {
      alert('success'); //testing purposes
    } else {
      alert('fail'); //testing purposes
    }
  }
});

Then in the same folder I have the file insert_mysql.php , and the code is

$nombre = $_POST['values'];

The problem is that the AJAX function does not work, and don't know exactly why. The code never goes into insertar_mysql.php .

UPDATE:

i solved the problem, the file directory was wrong, but actually i have on more problem, chorme console says:

    POST http://uplaber.com/manager/insertar_mysql.php 403 (Forbidden) jquery-latest.js:8706
    send jquery-latest.js:8706
    x.extend.ajax jquery-latest.js:8136
(anonymous function) uplaber-manager:988
x.event.dispatch jquery-latest.js:5095
v.handle

any advice , why is forbidden??

Answer 1

Replace your ajax function with following in this function i have added error event to make sure that is there any error in your ajax call.

var data = $("#prueba").text();
$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "insertar_mysql.php",
  data: {
    values: data
  },
  success: function(msg) {
    if (msg) {
      alert('success'); //testing purposes
    } else {
      alert('fail'); //testing purposes
    }
  },
  error:function(e){
      alert("something wrong"+ e) // this will alert an error
  }
});

Answer 2

var data = $("#prueba").text();
var dataString = "value="+data;
$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "insertar_mysql.php",
  data: dataString ,
  success: function(msg) {
      alert(msg); //testing purposes
  }
});

PHP

$nombre = $_POST['value'];
echo $nombre;

Answer 3

If insertar_mysql.php in the like address:
[drive]:\\wamp\\www\\insertar_mysql.php ,You use url: "/insertar_mysql.php" else like [drive]:\\wamp\\www\\new\\insertar_mysql.php ,You use url: "/new/insertar_mysql.php"
Try this code:

$.ajax({
    url:"insertar_mysql.php",
    data:{values: data},
    dataType:"html",
    cache:false,
    context:document.body,
    type:"POST",
    success: function(result) {
        if (msg) {
            alert('success'); //testing purposes
        } else {
            alert('fail'); //testing purposes
        }
    },Error: function(xhr,ajaxOptions,thrownError) {
        alert(xhr.status);
        alert(thrownError);
    }
}); 

Answer 4

I found in chrome console this

POST http://uplaber.com/index.php/es/insertar_mysql.php 404 (Not Found) jquery-  latest.js:8706
send jquery-latest.js:8706
x.extend.ajax jquery-latest.js:8136
(anonymous function) uplaber-manager:988
x.event.dispatch jquery-latest.js:5095
v.handle jquery-latest.js:4766

so i think my problem is the directory of my insertar_mysql-php file is not correct, i will try to find the exact directory.