jQuery form plugin, submit in the wordpress way

Question

Trying to use jQuery form plugin in wordpress site to upload files.

HTML markup:

<form id="myForm" action="process.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">


<input type="file" value="" name="file_upload"  class="file_upload"/> <br></br>

<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="btn_submit" name="btn_submit" />


</form>

and the JS snippet :

<script type="text/javascript"> 

        $(document).ready(function() { 

            $('#myForm').ajaxForm(function() { 
                alert("Thank you for your comment!"); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 

The form processes its element values in process.php which is a non-template file. As a result Wordpress codex functions are not available in that page . So what I need to do is to use the jQuery form plugin's ajax submission in the wordpressian way.

How to implement that ?

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Answer 1

If you want to use the WordPress functions in your process.php file then there is a way for you.

simply put these two lines of code at the top of your process.php file

$blogheader = explode("wp-content",$_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]);
include $blogheader[0]."wp-blog-header.php";

Now you can use the WordPress functions in your file and do what you want. Will that work for you?