$_POST is not working in ajax form submit?

Question

When I try to check user input name is already exist by ajax form submit !But it only get Undefined index: username in sessions.php ,what is missing ?

<form action="" method="POST" id="saveuser" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="username"><br>
<input type="password" name="pass"><br>
<input type="file" name="fileupload"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Confirm" id="confirm">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $('#confirm').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
      $.ajax({
            type:'POST',
            url :"sessions.php",
            data:$("#saveuser").serialize(),
            contentType : false,
            processData: false,            
            success: function(d){
                console.log(d);//[error] :Undefined index: username 
            }
        });
    });
</script>

sessions.php

<?php
$exist = "david";
if($_POST['username'] == $exist){
    echo json_encode("Already exist");
}
else{
    echo json_encode("You can succesfully add");
}
?>

Answer 1

If you set contentType to false, ajax header is not send, in result if you send somehing type:POST header doesn't contain your data, so server can't see it. If you use GET to do it, it will work, because data is sended with GET (after url) not in header.

Just remove contentType

    $.ajax({
            type:'POST',
            url :"sessions.php",
            data: $("#saveuser").serialize(),
            success: function(d){
                console.log(d);
            }
    });

contentType

(default: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8')

Type: Boolean or String When sending data to the server, use this content type. Default is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8", which is fine for most cases. If you explicitly pass in a content-type to $.ajax(), then it is always sent to the server (even if no data is sent). As of jQuery 1.6 you can pass false to tell jQuery to not set any content type header. Note: The W3C XMLHttpRequest specification dictates that the charset is always UTF-8; specifying another charset will not force the browser to change the encoding. Note: For cross-domain requests, setting the content type to anything other than application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, or text/plain will trigger the browser to send a preflight OPTIONS request to the server.

processData is used to send data as it is - Ajax documentation

Sending Data to the Server

By default, Ajax requests are sent using the GET HTTP method. If the POST method is required, the method can be specified by setting a value for the type option. This option affects how the contents of the data option are sent to the server. POST data will always be transmitted to the server using UTF-8 charset, per the W3C XMLHTTPRequest standard.

The data option can contain either a query string of the form key1=value1&key2=value2, or an object of the form {key1: 'value1', key2: 'value2'}. If the latter form is used, the data is converted into a query string using jQuery.param() before it is sent. This processing can be circumvented by setting processData to false. The processing might be undesirable if you wish to send an XML object to the server; in this case, change the contentType option from application/x-www-form-urlencoded to a more appropriate MIME type.