Well response.success will never work because your not passing a JSON object. Just remove the if statement in the JS.
When your responding as html, no object is sent back, just the html itself. On Dec 6, 1:31 pm, "Dave" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to edit a form using Ajax. I have the submit, save or error all > working. Just the response I am having problems with. I am trying to use > Miles Ajax Handler component and basically from the controller i need to : > > if form saves return a success response and the Ajax view with the updated > content. If it does not save return a fail response and show the errors on > the form. I know i could use Ajax to validate but that's more of a headache > and for what i need it for i really don't care about user side validation, > the form coming back showing errors will work just fine. > > I Need the fail or success response to pass to the JavaScript because fail > and success will have 2 different functions so i need to know what comes > back and how the site should respond accordingly. > > script: > $(this).ajaxSubmit({ > type: 'post', > url: form_url, > data: queryString, > success: function () { > > // Response was a success > if (response.success == true) > { > //do my stuff here for success > > // Response contains errors > } else { > > do my stuff here for fail > } > } > }); > > Controller snip of the save part: > if (!empty($this->data)) { > $this->Experience->id = $id; > if ($this->Experience->save($this->data, true)) { > $this->set('experience', > $this->Experience->getExperienceInfo($experience['Experience']['id'], > $this->Auth->user('id'))); > $this->layout = 'ajax'; > > $this->render('/elements/experiences/ajax_edited_block'); > $this->AjaxHandler->response(true); > $this->AjaxHandler->respond('html'); > > } else { > $this->AjaxHandler->response(false); > $this->AjaxHandler->respond('html'); > } > } > > Do anyone have any ideas how I can return success = true and the html > response or success is false and return the form with the errors so that the > javascript can carry on? > > Thaks > > Dave Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
