Jquery ajax forms in PHP MVC app

Killswitch · 01-11-2010, 05:50 PM

I was wondering about this since I am very new to javascript and Jquery in general.

My app uses the MVC approach. Using the ajax. method for submitting a form in Jquery means I need to make the request to a php page. I have tried sending it to site.com/mycontroller/mymethod but it always fails.

If I send it over to a seperate PHP page outside of the MVC app however, it works. Strangely though, even if that page does nothing but return false it still says it works.

Maybe I am not doing this right, but here is the jquery...

Code:

$(document).ready(function(){

	// Hide status message by default
	$(".error").hide();
	$("#error").hide();
	$("#success").hide();

	// Create content
	$("#submit").click(function(){		
	
		// Hide status message by default
		//$("#error").hide();
		//$("#success").hide();
		
		var hasError = false;
		
		// Check that we have a title
		var title = $("#title").val();
		if(title == '') {
			$("#title_error").show();
			hasError = true;
		}	
		// Check that we have a url
		var url = $("#url").val();
		if(url == '') {
			$("#url_error").show();
			hasError = true;
		}	
		// Check that the full story and short story was not left blank
		var short = $('#short').val();
		var full = $('#full').val();
		if(short == '' && full == '') {
			$("#short_error").show();
			$("#full_error").show();
			hasError = true;
		}	
		// Get form data
		var formData = $('#create_form').serialize(); 
		
		// Check that we dont have errors
		if(hasError == false) {
			$(this).hide();
			
			$.ajax({
				type: "POST",
				url: "http://localhost/framework2/public/js/ajax/php/content_create.php",
				data: formData,
				cache: false,
				success: function(){
					$('#success').fadeIn("slow");
				},
				error: function() {
					$('#error').fadeIn("slow");
				}
			});
		}
		else {
			$('#error').fadeIn("slow");
			$(this).show();
		}
		return false;
	});						   
});

Anyone here help with this? I followed a mixture of tutorials to learn how to do this, but honestly most of this was thrown together without the tutorial (all the error checking stuff mostly).

Am I missing anything here? Shouldn't returning false trigger the error option in Jquery? Also, is it possible to send the request to a method in my MVC app? I would much prefer to keep this in the APP so I don't have to get a new instance of the database and have access to all my helpers.