ops! i have been a little too slow in typing :)
On Jun 17, 6:03 am, jacknife <federico.bore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To continue form submitting you can directly call the submit after the
> ajax validation.
> a quick example could be:
>
> [code]
> var form = $('form_id');
>
> form.observe('submit', function(event){
> event.stop();
> new Ajax.Request(validition_url, {
> onSuccess : function(response)
> {
> // if the response is empty submit the form
> if ( ! response.responseText)
> return form.submit();
> // else show errors
> alert('error');
> }
> });});
>
> [/code]
>
> May i ask why don't you move the validation into the method that is
> the action of the form?
> in this case the solution provided by T.J is perfect, the same php
> method is invoked both for the ajax validation that the form action
> (remember the flag viaAjax).
>
> What if is a user has javascript disabled? or a malicious user
> bypasses the validation sending a malformed request directly to the
> action of the form?
>
> sorry for my bad english and my divagations about the security :)
>
> Federico
>
> On Jun 16, 2:23 pm, Matt <m...@postzero.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there some kind of trick involved? Here's how I would envision it
> > working:
>
> > 1) User tries submitting the form
> > 2) Event.observe captures this and sends an AJAX request to a special
> > validation URL (PHP using Codeigniter)
> > 3) If no errors were returned, continue submitting the original form
> > 4) If errors were found, cancel form submission and display
>
> > Mostly, I can't seem to get a separate AJAX validation request to work
> > as the form continues submitting. I could use Event.stop(event), but
> > have not found a way to re-start the process if no validation errors
> > exist from the validation call. I'd post code, but I have about 15
> > examples of things I've tried and it would just clutter this question.
>
> > Any ideas? :-( I didn't think form validation would be this
> > difficult.
>
> > Many thanks,
> > - Matt
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