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Returning a post request

My JS is as follows

$("document").ready(function(){

$('#username').on('focus', function() {
   $.ajax({
    url: '/search_results',
    type: 'POST',
    data: {
   '_token': '{!! csrf_token() !!}'
    },
    dataType: 'JSON',
    success: function (data) {
        console.log("it is"+data);
    },error:function(data){ 
        alert('error');
        console.log(data);
    }
})
});
});

My route

Route::post('/search_results', function (){
   $users = "Jim";
   return 'Jim';
});

It seems to be a token error but I thought I fixed that with the quotes.

search:53 Object {readyState: 4, responseText: "↵↵↵ ↵ <meta n…l>↵↵↵ ↵ ↵", status: 200, statusText: "OK"}abort: (a)always: ()complete: ()done: ()error: ()fail: ()getAllResponseHeaders: ()getResponseHeader: (a)overrideMimeType: (a)pipe: ()progress: ()promise: (a)readyState: 4responseText: "↵↵↵ ↵ ↵ ↵ /* Copyright (c) 2010, Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Code licensed under the BSD License: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/license.html */↵ html{color:#000;background:#FFF;}body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td{margin:0;padding:0;}table{border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;}fieldset,img{border:0;}address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;}li{list-style:none;}caption,th{text-align:left;}h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{font-size:100%;font-weight:normal;}q:before,q:after{content:'';}abbr,acronym{border:0;font-variant:normal;}sup{vertical-align:text-top;}sub{vertical-align:text-bottom;}input,textarea,select{font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;}input,textarea,select{*font-size:100%;}legend{color:#000;}↵ html { background: #eee; padding: 10px }↵ img { border: 0; }↵ #sf-resetcontent { width:970px; margin:0 auto; }↵ .sf-reset { font: 11px Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333 }↵ .sf-reset .clear { clear:both; height:0; font-size:0; line-height:0; }↵ .sf-reset .clear_fix:after { display:block; height:0; clear:both; visibility:hidden; }↵ .sf-reset .clear_fix { display:inline-block; }↵ .sf-reset * html .clear_fix { height:1%; }↵ .sf-reset .clear_fix { display:block; }↵ .sf-reset, .sf-reset .block { margin: auto }↵ .sf-reset abbr { border-bottom: 1px dotted #000; cursor: help; }↵ .sf-reset p { font-size:14px; line-height:20px; color:#868686; padding-bottom:20px }↵ .sf-reset strong { font-weight:bold; }↵ .sf-reset a { color:#6c6159; cursor: default; }↵ .sf-reset a img { border:none; }↵ .sf-reset a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }↵ .sf-reset em { font-style:italic; }↵ .sf-reset h1, .sf-reset h2 { font: 20px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif }↵ .sf-reset .exception_counter { background-color: #fff; color: #333; padding: 6px; float: left; margin-right: 10px; float: left; display: block; }↵ .sf-reset .exception_title { margin-left: 3em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; display: block; }↵ .sf-reset .exception_message { margin-left: 3em; display: block; }↵ .sf-reset .traces li { font-size:12px; padding: 2px 4px; list-style-type:decimal; margin-left:20px; }↵ .sf-reset .block { background-color:#FFFFFF; padding:10px 28px; margin-bottom:20px;↵ -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 16px;↵ -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 16px;↵ -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 16px;↵ -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 16px;↵ border-bottom-right-radius: 16px;↵ border-bottom-left-radius: 16px;↵ border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;↵ border-right:1px solid #ccc;↵ border-left:1px solid #ccc;↵ }↵ .sf-reset .block_exception { background-color:#ddd; color: #333; padding:20px;↵ -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 16px;↵ -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 16px;↵ -moz-border-radius-topleft: 16px;↵ -moz-border-radius-topright: 16px;↵ border-top-left-radius: 16px;↵ border-top-right-radius: 16px;↵ border-top:1px solid #ccc;↵ border-right:1px solid #ccc;↵ border-left:1px solid #ccc;↵ overflow: hidden;↵ word-wrap: break-word;↵ }↵ .sf-reset a { background:none; color:#868686; text-decoration:none; }↵ .sf-reset a:hover { background:none; color:#313131; text-decoration:underline; }↵ .sf-reset ol { padding: 10px 0; }↵ .sf-reset h1 { background-color:#FFFFFF; padding: 15px 28px; margin-bottom: 20px;↵ -webkit-border-radius: 10px;↵ -moz-border-radius: 10px;↵ border-radius: 10px;↵ border: 1px solid #ccc;↵ }↵ ↵ ↵ ↵ ↵

Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

↵ 1/1↵ TokenMismatchException in VerifyCsrfToken.php line 67:↵ …vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php line 699" ondblclick="var f=this.innerHTML;this.innerHTML=this.title;this.title=f;">Router.php line 699↵
  • at Router->dispatchToRoute(object(Request)) in Router.php line 675
  • at Router->dispatch(object(Request)) in Kernel.php line 246
  • at Kernel->Illuminate\Foundation\Http{closure}(object(Request))
  • at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 52
  • at Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing{closure}(object(Request)) in CheckForMaintenanceMode.php line 44
  • at CheckForMaintenanceMode->handle(object(Request), object(Closure))
  • at call_user_func_array(array(object(CheckForMaintenanceMode), 'handle'), array(object(Request), object(Closure))) in Pipeline.php line 136
  • at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline{closure}(object(Request))
  • at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 32
  • at Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing{closure}(object(Request))
  • at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 103
  • at Pipeline->then(object(Closure)) in Kernel.php line 132
  • at Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter(object(Request)) in Kernel.php line 99
  • at Kernel->handle(object(Request)) in index.php line 54
  • ↵ ↵↵↵ ↵ ↵"setRequestHeader: (a,b)state: ()status: 200statusCode: (a)statusText: "OK"success: ()then: ()proto: Object search:53 Object {readyState: 4, responseText: "↵↵↵ ↵ <meta n…l>↵↵↵ ↵ ↵", status: 200, statusText: "OK"} search:53 Object {readyState: 4, responseText: "↵↵↵ ↵ <meta n…l>↵↵↵ ↵ ↵", status: 200, statusText: "OK"} search:53 Object {readyState: 4, responseText: "↵↵↵ ↵ <meta n…l>↵↵↵ ↵ ↵", status: 200, statusText: "OK"} search:53 Object {readyState: 4, responseText: "↵↵↵ ↵ <meta n…l>↵↵↵ ↵ ↵", status: 200, statusText: "OK"

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    ArchStanton's avatar

    Still getting the same error here is my file

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
        <head>
     
            <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/admin.css">
            <script  src="/js/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
            <script src="js/gsap/TweenMax.min.js"></script>
            <script src="/js/sweetalert.min.js"></script> 
            <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/sweetalert.css">
            <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/font-awesome.min.css">
            <meta name="csrf-token" content="ijNcUUhtHiesQbQJuSugySA11IUtFewcdgxRHoZM">
    
        </head>
            <body>
                <section class="search">    
                    <header>
                        <div class="admin-arrow back"></div>Search & Edit Users<div class="admin-arrow next"></div>
                    </header>             
                    <div class="left">
                        <label>First & last name</label>
                         <input id="username" name="username">
                    </div>
                    <div class="right">
                        <label>Team</label>
                        <input id="username" name="username">
                     </div>
                <ul class="controls">
                            <li class="active"></li>
                            <li></li>
                            <li></li>
                        </ul>
                <a class="nextbutton" href="results">Next<span></span></a>
     </section>
    
    
    <script>
    
    
    $("document").ready(function(){
    
    $('#username').on('focus', function() {
    
    $.ajaxSetup({
        headers: {
            'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
        }
    });
    
       $.ajax({
        url: '/search_results',
        type: 'POST',
        data: {
        },
        dataType: 'JSON',
        success: function (data) {
            console.log("it is"+data);
        },error:function(data){ 
            console.log(data);
        }
    })
    });
    });
        
    
        </script>
     
        </body>
    </html>
    
    tomopongrac's avatar

    in your html file put this

    <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
    
    ArchStanton's avatar

    that is what I did

     <meta name="csrf-token" content="ijNcUUhtHiesQbQJuSugySA11IUtFewcdgxRHoZM">
    

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