Saving data in a custom table in wp, data sent from jquery ajax [closed]

Question

I have a custom form coded in a page template, data is being sent properly.

Part of the code is this

$.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "<?php bloginfo("template_directory"); ?>/saveme.php",
            data: $(form).serialize(),
            timeout: 3000,
            success: function() { alert('Success');},
            error: function() {alert('Some errors occured, please try again.');}

And in saveme.php file which is inside my theme folder, I kept this code with some static data to check if it saves or not.

   <?php
global $wpdb;

$wpdb->insert( 'mycontact', array( 'name' => 'testname', 'lastname' => 'testlastname', 'email' => 'test@test.com', 'phone' => '343434343'));
?>

The data does not save, I don't think i am doing it the right way, any help?

Answer 1

You are going about this the complete wrong way. As kaiser said, you need to read up on how to manage ajax requests. If you're interested in doing it the right way, this is pretty much the standard to which you will be held.

The reason the method you're using doesn't work is because you're trying to use a wordpress class without loading wordpress. If you are deadset on using the incorrect method, you can call wp-load.php with a require, thus loading wordpress and all of it's functions.