I am trying to load a "thank you" modal when submitting my form.
I have 3 files, magic.js (which does the JQ magic), index.html and process.php.
Below is the code for each of the 3 files, and I can't for the life of me get it to work.
When the form is submitted it just loads the process.php page and displays success = true
if I remove the action="process.php" from the form tag I just get a Method Not Allowed error.
index.html:
<html>
<head>
<title>Look I'm AJAXing!</title>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js"></script> <!-- load jquery via CDN -->
<script src="magic.js"></script> <!-- load our javascript file -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.3/css/bootstrap.min.css"> <!-- load bootstrap via CDN -->
</head>
<body>
<div class="col-sm-6 col-sm-offset-3">
<h1>Processing an AJAX Form</h1>
<!-- OUR FORM -->
<form action="process.php" method="POST">
<!-- NAME -->
<div id="name-group" class="form-group">
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" placeholder="Henry Pym">
<!-- errors will go here -->
</div>
<!-- EMAIL -->
<div id="email-group" class="form-group">
<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="email" placeholder="rudd@avengers.com">
<!-- errors will go here -->
</div>
<!-- SUPERHERO ALIAS -->
<div id="superhero-group" class="form-group">
<label for="superheroAlias">Superhero Alias</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="superheroAlias" placeholder="Ant Man">
<!-- errors will go here -->
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Submit <span class="fa fa-arrow-right"></span></button>
</form>
</div>
<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" role="dialog">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<!-- Modal content-->
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</button>
<h4 style="color:red;"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-lock"></span> Login</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body tyModal">
<p> Thank you for your submission!</p>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default btn-default pull-left" data-dismiss="modal"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove"></span> Cancel</button>
<p>Not a member? <a href="#">Sign Up</a></p>
<p>Forgot <a href="#">Password?</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
magic.js:
$(document).ready(function() {
// process the form
$('form').submit(function(event) {
$('.form-group').removeClass('has-error'); // remove the error class
$('.help-block').remove(); // remove the error text
// get the form data
// there are many ways to get this data using jQuery (you can use the class or id also)
var formData = {
'name' : $('input[name=name]').val(),
'email' : $('input[name=email]').val(),
'superheroAlias' : $('input[name=superheroAlias]').val()
};
// process the form
$.ajax({
type : 'POST', // define the type of HTTP verb we want to use (POST for our form)
url : 'process.php', // the url where we want to POST
data : formData, // our data object
dataType : 'json', // what type of data do we expect back from the server
encode : true
success: function (msg) {
$("#thanks").html(msg)
$("tyModal").modal('hide');
},
error: function () {
alert("failure");
}
})
// using the done promise callback
.done(function(data) {
// log data to the console so we can see
console.log(data);
// here we will handle errors and validation messages
if ( ! data.success) {
// handle errors for name ---------------
if (data.errors.name) {
$('#name-group').addClass('has-error'); // add the error class to show red input
$('#name-group').append('<div class="help-block">' + data.errors.name + '</div>'); // add the actual error message under our input
}
// handle errors for email ---------------
if (data.errors.email) {
$('#email-group').addClass('has-error'); // add the error class to show red input
$('#email-group').append('<div class="help-block">' + data.errors.email + '</div>'); // add the actual error message under our input
}
// handle errors for superhero alias ---------------
if (data.errors.superheroAlias) {
$('#superhero-group').addClass('has-error'); // add the error class to show red input
$('#superhero-group').append('<div class="help-block">' + data.errors.superheroAlias + '</div>'); // add the actual error message under our input
}
} else {
// ALL GOOD! just show the success message!
$('form').append('<div class="alert alert-success">' + data.message + '</div>');
// usually after form submission, you'll want to redirect
// window.location = '/thank-you'; // redirect a user to another page
}
})
// using the fail promise callback
.fail(function(data) {
// show any errors
// best to remove for production
console.log(data);
});
// stop the form from submitting the normal way and refreshing the page
event.preventDefault();
});
});
process.php:
<?php
$errors = array(); // array to hold validation errors
$data = array(); // array to pass back data
// validate the variables ======================================================
// if any of these variables don't exist, add an error to our $errors array
if (empty($_POST['name']))
$errors['name'] = 'Name is required.';
if (empty($_POST['email']))
$errors['email'] = 'Email is required.';
if (empty($_POST['superheroAlias']))
$errors['superheroAlias'] = 'Superhero alias is required.';
// return a response ===========================================================
// if there are any errors in our errors array, return a success boolean of false
if ( ! empty($errors)) {
// if there are items in our errors array, return those errors
$data['success'] = false;
$data['errors'] = $errors;
} else {
// if there are no errors process our form, then return a message
// DO ALL YOUR FORM PROCESSING HERE
// THIS CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO (LOGIN, SAVE, UPDATE, WHATEVER)
// show a message of success and provide a true success variable
$data['success'] = true;
$data['message'] = 'Success!';
}
// return all our data to an AJAX call
echo json_encode($data);
