I'd like to stop a form submitting by thr result of an ajax request... this is the code i tried to use: The function chreg() should return a boolean given from the ajax request, but it doesn't!
Javascript:
function chreg() {
user = document.getElementById('nome').value;
passw1 = document.getElementById('passw1').value;
passw2 = document.getElementById('passw2').value;
mai = document.getElementById('mail').value;
dat = 'use='+encodeURIComponent(user)+'&pas='+encodeURIComponent(passw1)+'&pas2='+encodeURIComponent(passw2)+'&mail='+encodeURIComponent(mai);
htp = new XMLHttpRequest;
htp.onreadystatechange = function(){
if (htp.readyState == 4 && htp.status == 200){
if (htp.responseText == "true"){
alert('true');
return true;
}
else {
document.getElementById('er2').innerHTML = '<br/><h3>'+tag_esc(decodeURIComponent(htp.responseText))+'</h3>';
return false;
}
}
};
a = Math.random
htp.open("POST","checklog.php?a="+a,true);
htp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
htp.send(dat);
}
And the HTML:
<form action="reg.php" method="POST" onsubmit="return chreg(this);">
<table id="tab2"><tr><td>
<label for="user1">Username: <input type="text" name="user" id="nome" /></label></td> <td>
<label for="mail">Indirizzo e-mail: <input type="text" name="mail" id="mail" /></label> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td><label for="pass1">Password: <input type="password" name="pass1" id="passw1" /> </label></td>
<td><label for="pass2">Password (conferma): <input type="password" name="pass2" id="passw2" /></label></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><br /><input type="submit" class="st" value="Registrati" /></td> </tr>
</table>
<div id="er2"></div>
</form>
But it doesn't work! Help Thanks a lot!
You won't be able to make it work as it stands because AJAX is asynchronous by default. That means that your
chreg
method initiates the request and returns immediately, before the request has completed and its result become known. This is a problem because you cannot return fromchreg
before the result is known since you need that result to know what to return.One solution would be to make the request synchronous by changing the third parameter here:
This is not the best solution because it might end up locking up the UI for the duration of the request, which is undesirable. However, going back to the asynchronous model (which does not have this problem) is going to be more involved because it requires you to do stuff "backwards":
chreg
is called and makes the AJAX request; it always returnsfalse
(so the form is not submitted)onreadystatechanged
handler you installed detects that the AJAX is complete, it checks the response.form.submit
to do it.Your success handler function returns either true or false but your main
chreg
method doesn't.You need to return false in your
chreg
method to stop the form submitting.Since you're handling the form submission through ajax, you'll likely not want the form to do a postback atall.