Using Connection Manager to Post Data and Receive the Server Response via HTTP POST

Source file and dependencies

Load the Yahoo Global Object and Connection Manager source files:

Assemble the POST message

Construct an example of key-value string of username = anonymous and userid = 0:

The Callback Object

Create a callback object to handle the response and pass an array of values to success and failure as the argument.

Initiate the POST Transaction

Call YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest to send the request to post.php, and the PHP script will return the readable output of $_POST via print_r(). The handleSuccess callback will print the response object's properties, including the server response data.

Configuration for This Example

You can load the necessary JavaScript and CSS for this example from Yahoo's servers. Click here to load the YUI Dependency Configurator with all of this example's dependencies preconfigured.