I have a View page company_view which displays all the information of a college, has its own controller company.php to fetch results from the DB via the model.
Added a Modal Form to this page where the user inputs his details and it sends that data to the DB. In other words a Custom registration form.
http://startcodeigniter.blogspot.in/2015/12/create-simple-contact-form-in.html
But the above form is inside a modal.
The Insertion Process succeeds but I want the Success message to be displayed in the modal itself, it redirects into another page => (the new controller page contactform/index ) after submitting the form. Went through a few solutions to fix it , but nothing seemed to work out.
Is there any AJAX way to submit the data to the controller which prevents it from redirecting? Been scouring for similar AJAX example, still no luck.
What i was looking for is when the user submits the data, the modal displays that the data is submitted without the redirection.
Any help / Lead would help me a great deal!
Updated View - company_view.php
<button type="button" class="btn btn-info btn-lg btn-block" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#enquire">Enquire</button>
<div class="modal fade" id="enquire">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>
<h4 class="modal-title">Apply for "<?php echo $row_company->company_name;?> "</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<?php $attributes=a rray( "name"=> "contactform"); echo form_open("contactform/index", $attributes);?>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input class="form-control" name="name" placeholder="Your Full Name" type="text" value="<?php echo set_value('name'); ?>" />
<span class="text-danger"><?php echo form_error('name'); ?></span>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Email ID</label>
<input class="form-control" name="email" placeholder="Email-ID" type="text" value="<?php echo set_value('email'); ?>" />
<span class="text-danger"><?php echo form_error('email'); ?></span>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="subject">Subject</label>
<input class="form-control" name="subject" placeholder="Subject" type="text" value="<?php echo set_value('subject'); ?>" />
<span class="text-danger"><?php echo form_error('subject'); ?></span>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea class="form-control" name="message" rows="4" placeholder="Message">
<?php echo set_value( 'message'); ?>
</textarea>
<span class="text-danger"><?php echo form_error('message'); ?></span>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button name="submit" type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Submit</button>
</div>
<?php echo form_close(); ?>
<?php echo $this->session->flashdata('msg'); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Controller for form - contactform.php
<?php
class Contactform extends CI_Controller
{
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->load->helper(array('form','url'));
$this->load->library(array('session', 'form_validation'));
$this->load->database();
}
function index()
{
//set validation rules
$this->form_validation->set_rules('name', 'Name', 'trim|required|xss_clean|callback_alpha_space_only');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('email', 'Emaid ID', 'trim|required|valid_email');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('subject', 'Subject', 'trim|required|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('message', 'Message', 'trim|required|xss_clean');
//run validation on post data
if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
{ //validation fails
$this->load->view('company_view',$data);
}
else
{
//insert the contact form data into database
$data = array(
'name' => $this->input->post('name'),
'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
'subject' => $this->input->post('subject'),
'message' => $this->input->post('message')
);
if ($this->db->insert('contacts', $data))
{
// success
$this->session->set_flashdata('msg','<div class="alert alert-success text-center">We received your message! Will get back to you shortly!!!</div>');
redirect('contactform/index');
}
else
{
// error
$this->session->set_flashdata('msg','<div class="alert alert-danger text-center">Oops! Some Error. Please try again later!!!</div>');
redirect('contactform/index');
}
}
}
//custom callback to accept only alphabets and space input
function alpha_space_only($str)
{
if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ]+$/",$str))
{
$this->form_validation->set_message('alpha_space_only', 'The %s field must contain only alphabets and space');
return FALSE;
}
else
{
return TRUE;
}
}
}
?>
