I know that you can use JSON or XML for the Ajax response section but
somehow I had not thought of using JSON
for this error checking part.
Thanks for the answers.
Have a nice day
On Nov 15, 4:13 pm, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could force your PHP to respond with an error header, but I
> personally don't think that is a very good practice.
>
> What I've done in the past is have the PHP script return a JSON
> response that would look something like:
>
> In the case of no validation errors:
> {'valid':'true'}
>
> In the case of validation errors:
> {'valid':'false', 'error_msg': 'your validation errors here'}
>
> Then you'd have:
>
> $.ajax({
> type: "POST",
> url: "script.php",
> dataType: 'json',
> data: {
> ...........
> },
> success:
> function(t) {
> if (t.valid) {
> .... show the result of successful ajax call
> }
> else {
> .... show the result of t.error_msg
> }
> },
> error:
> function() {
> .... show the result of a failure : server timeout
> etc.
> }
>
> });
> }
>
> Just an idea ;)
>
> -Eric
>
> On Nov 14, 11:53 pm,Irfan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Sorry if this has been posted before but I searched the group and
> > could not find a clue.
> > I have a problem which I believe has a simple solution but could not
> > come up with a good way.
>
> > While using Jquery with PHP, I want error checking to be implemented
> > on the server side - with PHP. As it's much safer and also easier for
> > me. All of the articles/tutorials I've seen about Jquery uses client
> > side Javascript.
>
> > Whilst I have no problems doing this with PHP , if the server side
> > validation fails [ex: missing a required field or an out of range
> > value in a form etc] I would like the results of this to be printed as
> > a result of errror: section.
>
> > A typical ajax request is :
>
> > $.ajax({
> > type: "POST",
> > url: "script.php",
> > data: {
> > ...........
> > },
> > success:
> > function(t) {
> > .... show the result of successful ajax call
> > },
> > error:
> > function() {
> > .... show the result of a failure : server timeout etc.
> > }
>
> > });
> > }
>
> > If the validation fails I would like to output the error messages as a
> > result of the error: section because on the success part I usually
> > hide/fadeout the form elements. But as the PHP script has been
> > completed successfully output of the php falls to success section
>
> > I try to overcome this problem by attaching another event to the
> > output of script, ie: document.ready.function( .....
> > but this is really cumbersome.
>
> > I would highly appreciate other people's solutions, ideas on this
> > subejct
>
> >Irfan
