I'm having trouble building an ajax form in cakephp 2 which obviously has changed a lot since 1.3.
I'm using the following code:
<div id="commentForm">
<div id="commentStatus"></div>
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Comment', array('action' => 'save', 'default' => false));
echo $this->Form->input('Comment.comments_name');
echo $this->Form->input('Comment.comments_email');
echo $this->Form->input('Comment.comments_text');
echo $this->Js->submit('Save', array('update' => '#commentStatus'));
echo $this->Form->end();
?>
However the form is not submitted when pressing the button.
I will be thankful for any help!
Thanks!
Try this in your view file:
<?php
$data = $this->Js->get('#CommentSaveForm')->serializeForm(array('isForm' => true, 'inline' => true));
$this->Js->get('#CommentSaveForm')->event(
'submit',
$this->Js->request(
array('action' => 'save'),
array(
'update' => '#commentStatus',
'data' => $data,
'async' => true,
'dataExpression'=>true,
'method' => 'POST'
)
)
);
echo $this->Form->create('Comment', array('action' => 'save', 'default' => false));
echo $this->Form->input('Comment.comments_name');
echo $this->Form->input('Comment.comments_email');
echo $this->Form->input('Comment.comments_text');
echo $this->Form->end(__('Submit'));
echo $this->Js->writeBuffer();
?>
NOTE: #CommentSaveForm
is ID generated by CakePHP, If you have your own then use that
You want to show the loading image, use 'before' and 'complete' in $this->Js->request()
:
<?php
$this->Js->request(array('action' => 'save'), array(
'update' => '#commentStatus',
'data' => $data,
'async' => true,
'dataExpression' => true,
'method' => 'POST',
'before' => "$('#loading').fadeIn();",
'complete' => "$('#loading').fadeOut();",
));
?>