RE: Correct way to handle ajax forms

In my form I also do the same thing to switch the open / closing with an if
statement for the add or edit that's being called.

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Subject: Re: Correct way to handle ajax forms

I haven't done much AJAX stuff with 2.2.x yet but that's basically what I've
always been doing. Generally, my add and edit templates just include the
form.ctp element. In that I have a
switch($this->params['action']) to decide how to open/close the form.
But the point is to be able to render and return just the form portion of a
view.

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Advantage+ <movepixels@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering what is the correct way to handle processing forms
> submitted via ajax / json response?
>
>
>
> What I have been doing is converting my add / edit forms into a single
> element and placing them into the view/add/edit where needed so on
> error all I need to do is return the form element or on success
> whatever is needed success message.
>
>
>
> In the controller :
>
>
>
> if ( $this->Model->save($this->request->data, true)) {
>
>
>
> $response = array(
>
> 'status' => true,
>
> 'html' =>
> $this->render($this->autoElement('added_block'))->body(),
>
> 'message' => 'Saved!');
>
> } else {
>
>
>
> $this->set('errors', $this->Model->validationErrors);
>
> $response = array(
>
> 'status' => false,
>
> 'html' =>
> $this->render($this->autoElement('form'))->body(),
>
> 'message' => 'Please
> correct the following errors and try again!' );
>
> }
>
> $this->_ajaxReturn( $response ); //simply encodes $response array to
> json that gets passed to the js
>
>
>
> This way the js can act according to the response status and has all
> the HTML info ready to drop into my <div> or where ever and has all
> the Cake inputs with errors. Is this going about it wrong? Or is there an
easier way?
>
> Just curious how others are approaching this.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Dave
>
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