I am trying to create a basic form where the user can enter his name, a comment and click on a submit button. When user clicks on submit, his name, comment as well as geolocation (longitude + latitude) are stored in a database. I have only one problem: How can I store the javascript variable of his geolocation into the database?
I have two php files. Iamhere.php (gets the data) and Iamhere_post.php (insert data into database).
Populate hidden fields in your form that hold the values you need.
Create fields longitude + latitude then populate them with the geo values using javascript so they are submitted with the form
Populate a hidden field in your HTML form for each the latitude and the longitude:
<input type='hidden' name='latitude' />
<input type='hidden' name='longitude' />
Store your geolocation to a variable and add that variable to the hidden field:
var latitude; //store the latitude to this variable.
var longitude; //store the longitude to this variable.
document.getElementsByName("latitude")[0].setAttribute("value",latitude)
document.getElementsByName("longitude")[0].setAttribute("value",longitude)
Call it with your PHP script on your database insert like normal:
$_POST['latitude'];
$_POST['longitude'];
