Posting data from webpage using JavaScript PHP jQuery to Google Sheet
Question
Before you say this is a duplicate, hear me out. I followed this answer ( jQuery Ajax POST example with PHP ), but I am trying to send the data to a Google Sheet. I have already got the code working on the Google Sheet, as I can add data to it by running my code directly from the sheet.
However, getting it to work with my webpage is apparently the problem. Even though I have followed the answer to the question I posted above, I think there is something more at play here that has to do with my lack of experience working in this area.
The code below is to a floating footer and is contained within the code of the whole webpage (where jquery-1.11.0.min.js and jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js have already been called). When I click on the submit button, the page looks like it processes the request, but nothing ever appears on the Google Sheet, Sheet1 ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19l2kSHdBKEWtIFX44FxLBdvCoKjy7VqPF4IW6C1xAZc/edit?usp=sharing ).
#document
<html>
<body>
<div class="floater-footer" id="the-floater-footer">
<span id="myTestSpan"></span>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-1 col-sm-2 col-xs-3"><p>Newsletter</p></div>
<div class="col-md-8 col-sm-7 col-xs-9">
<form id="floater_footer" class="validate subscribe_form">
<div id="subscrive_group wow fadeInUp">
<!-- <input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="form-control subscribe_mail" id="mce-EMAIL" placeholder="email address" required /> -->
<input type="text" class="form-control subscribe_mail" id="bar" name="bar" value="" placeholder="email address" required />
<!-- <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="subscr_btn subscribe_btn"> -->
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe" class="subscr_btn subscribe_btn" />
</div>
</form>
</div>
<div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3 hidden-xs">
<div class="pull-right">
<!-- social media icons here -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascipt">
jQuery( document ).ready(function( $ ) {
// variable to hold request
var request;
// bind to the submit event of our form
$("#floater_footer").submit(function(event){
// abort any pending request
if (request) {
request.abort();
}
// setup some local variables
var $form = $(this);
// let's select and cache all the fields
var $inputs = $form.find("input, select, button, textarea");
// serialize the data in the form
var serializedData = $form.serialize();
// let's disable the inputs for the duration of the ajax request
// Note: we disable elements AFTER the form data has been serialized.
// Disabled form elements will not be serialized.
$inputs.prop("disabled", true);
//$('#result').text('Sending data...');
// fire off the request to /form.php
request = $.ajax({
url: "https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbyQIDmSInumcrNmU4zxIa4pV8tIlN3A9zx5L5o1hH4qNdP9nDw/exec",
type: "post",
data: serializedData
});
// callback handler that will be called on success
request.done(function (response, textStatus, jqXHR){
// log a message to the console
//$('#result').html('<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10tt64TiALYhPMqR2fh9JzkuhxW7oC0rXXPb_pmJ7HAY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Success - see Google Sheet</a>');
console.log("Hooray, it worked!");
});
// callback handler that will be called on failure
request.fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
// log the error to the console
console.error(
"The following error occured: "+
textStatus, errorThrown
);
});
// callback handler that will be called regardless
// if the request failed or succeeded
request.always(function () {
// reenable the inputs
$inputs.prop("disabled", false);
});
// prevent default posting of form
event.preventDefault();
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Any suggestions on what could be going wrong? I am quite inexperienced when it comes to web development, as compared to most on this site. So I'm sure it's something simple I am missing!
1 answers
solution1
0 ACCPTED 2016-04-20 03:59:46
I don't completely understand why it worked, but taking out the script and putting it in the head of the page HTML seemed to work! Perhaps this was because having the script come after the elements was an issue, or perhaps having a $(document).ready() inside of an HTML that was inside the page's main HTML caused issue, or perhaps it was something else! No matter which one it is, the following solved the problem.
Up at the top of the code in the head of the page's HTML (but after the jQuery.js files were declared), I placed the script you saw already, but with some cosmetic changes. I'll put it here in the event I did indeed change something important that I didn't realize. I will also show the two jQuery files I included before the script:
<script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//this is for writing the newsletter signup out to a spreadsheet for the floating footer
$( document ).ready(function( $ ) {
// variable to hold request
var request;
// bind to the submit event of our form
$("#floater_footer").submit(function(event){
// abort any pending request
if (request) {
request.abort();
}
// setup some local variables
var $form = $(this);
// let's select and cache all the fields
var $inputs = $form.find("input, select, button, textarea");
// serialize the data in the form
var serializedData = $form.serialize();
// let's disable the inputs for the duration of the ajax request
// Note: we disable elements AFTER the form data has been serialized.
// Disabled form elements will not be serialized.
$inputs.prop("disabled", true);
//$('#result').text('Sending data...');
if( $('#email1').val() == "Email Received!" ) {
//do nothing
//basically, they pressed the button again on accident
} else {
// fire off the request to the Google Sheet script
request = $.ajax({
url: "https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbyQIDmSInumcrNmU4zxIa4pV8tIlN3A9zx5L5o1hH4qNdP9nDw/exec",
type: "post",
data: serializedData
});
}
// callback handler that will be called on success
request.done(function (response, textStatus, jqXHR){
// log a message to the console
//$('#result').html('<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10tt64TiALYhPMqR2fh9JzkuhxW7oC0rXXPb_pmJ7HAY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Success - see Google Sheet</a>');
$('#email1').val('Email Received!');
console.log("Newsletter signup complete!");
});
// callback handler that will be called on failure
request.fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
// log the error to the console
console.error(
"The following error occured: "+
textStatus, errorThrown
);
});
// callback handler that will be called regardless
// if the request failed or succeeded
request.always(function () {
// reenable the inputs
$inputs.prop("disabled", false);
});
// prevent default posting of form
event.preventDefault();
});
});
</script>
Further down into the body of the HTML was this code where my footer was to be placed:
#document
<html>
<body>
<div class="floater-footer" id="the-floater-footer">
<span id="myTestSpan"></span>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-1 col-sm-2 col-xs-3"><p>Newsletter</p></div>
<div class="col-md-8 col-sm-7 col-xs-9">
<form id="floater_footer" class="validate subscribe_form">
<div id="subscrive_group wow fadeInUp">
<input type="text" class="form-control subscribe_mail" id="email1" name="emailSignup" value="" placeholder="email address" required />
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe" class="subscr_btn subscribe_btn" />
</div>
</form>
</div>
<div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3 hidden-xs">
<div class="pull-right">
<!-- bunch of social media links/icons -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hopefully that will help somebody that has this problem in the future. You may see a reason this worked that I do not.
Big thanks to Jay Blanchard for making me question if my script was even triggering at all, which inspired me to pull the script out and put it somewhere else! The script almost certainly wasn't firing at all, and was the root of the problem. But WHY that was, I don't know. But I hope this helps someone else!
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