Currently my AJAX is working like this:
index.php
<a href='one.php' class='ajax'>One</a>
<div id="workspace">workspace</div>
one.php
$arr = array ( "workspace" => "One" );
echo json_encode( $arr );
ajax.js
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery('.ajax').live('click', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
jQuery.getJSON(this.href, function(snippets) {
for(var id in snippets) {
jQuery('#' + id).html(snippets[id]);
}
});
});
});
Above code is working perfectly. When I click link 'One' then one.php is executed and String "One" is loaded into workspace DIV.
Question:
Now I want to submit a form with AJAX. For example I have a form in index.php like this.
<form id='myForm' action='one.php' method='post'>
<input type='text' name='myText'>
<input type='submit' name='myButton' value='Submit'>
</form>
When I submit the form then one.php should print the textbox value in workspace DIV.
$arr = array ( "workspace" => $_POST['myText'] );
echo json_encode( $arr );
How to code js to submit the form with AJAX/JSON.
Thanks
Submitting the form is easy:
$j('#myForm').submit();
However that will post back the entire page.
A post via an Ajax call is easy too:
$j.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'one.php',
data: {
myText: $j('#myText').val(),
myButton: $j('#myButton').val()
},
success: function(response, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
$j('div.ajax').html(response);
}
});
If you then want to do something with the result you have two options - you can either explicitly set the success
function (which I've done above) or you can use the load
helper method:
$j('div.ajax').load('one.php', data);
Unfortunately there's one messy bit that you're stuck with: populating that data
object with the form variables to post.
However it should be a fairly simple loop.
Here is my complete solution:
jQuery('#myForm').live('submit',function(event) {
$.ajax({
url: 'one.php',
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
data: $('#myForm').serialize(),
success: function( data ) {
for(var id in data) {
jQuery('#' + id).html(data[id]);
}
}
});
return false;
});
Have a look at the $.ajaxSubmit
function in the jQuery Form Plugin. Should be as simple as
$('#myForm').ajaxSubmit();
You may also want to bind to the form submit event so that all submissions go via AJAX, as the example on the linked page shows.
You can submit the form with jQuery's $.ajax
method like this:
$.ajax({
url: 'one.php',
type: 'POST',
data: $('#myForm').serialize(),
success:function(data){
alert(data);
}
});