post parameters

[aymenet1]

I'm trying to post some parameters to be persisted in the database but they are not sent through the post method
adding
post :{
param1:'value1',
param2:'value2'
}
I can't get these parameter in the server side I don't know why can somebody help me please
thanks in advance

[ghost]

Hey! I signed up on github just to help you, because I've been trying to figure out this thing for half a day! Anyway here you go, I hope I got your question right:

To send other values to that upload php you can use

data: {
 peter: 'griffin'
 glen: 'quagmire'
},

In php it will look like: $album = $_POST['peter'] and what you get from $album will be "griffin". So it's like when using "name" in submit form tag.

But it's not going to work with you jquery variables, it will show you an unexpected-blah-blah-error. So if you want to $_POST your variable you go like this:

var someValue = $("div").text();

data: {
 peter: function() {
   return someValue;
},

Here is my code, it can help:

var dropbox = $('#albumsstuff'),
          curAlbum = thisVal;

dropbox.filedrop({  
    fallback_id: 'upload_button',
    url: 'phps_portfolio/upload.php',
    paramname: 'imagefile',
    maxfiles: 5,
    maxfilesize: 30,

    data: {
        album: function() {
            return curAlbum;
        },
    },

    dragOver: function() {
        dropbox.addClass('dashedBorder');
    },

etc...

and PHP:

$filename = $_FILES['imagefile'];
$uploaddir = '../../images/';
$album = $_POST['album'];

$new_file_name = date("His").'_'.$filename['name'];

if(move_uploaded_file($filename['tmp_name'], $uploaddir.$album.'/'.$new_file_name))
{
    echo json_encode($new_file_name);
}

[chuja3]

still get Notice: Undefined index: idItem .. ???

[marco-solare]

very cool, the construct

data: {
    variableName: function () { 
        return $('#identifier').value() 
    }
}

works perfect for me and saved my day!
Without it the user always got logged out the moment the picture was completely transmitted.

I had another version working previously where I just added the token manually like so:
url: '/articles/upload/authenticity_token=' + $('input[name=authenticity_token]').attr('value'),

however, this ceased to work, maybe due to some rails update.
My current rails Version according to my Gemfile is: 3.2.8