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PHP Form with Button

I have some experience in JAVA GUI programming and I want to achieve the same in a PHP form.
Situation: I want to have a php form with a submit button. When the button is pressed an ActionEvent should be called to update another part of the form.
How to implement such a feature with HTML,PHP,JAVASCRIPT ?

Load latest version of jQuery:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
HTML code:
<form>
<button type="button" class="formLoader">Click button</button>
<div id="formContentToLoad"></div>
</form>
jQuery code:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$(".formLoader").click(function(){
$("#formContentToLoad").load("scriptToRun.php");
});
});
</script>
Whatever markup you need to update in the form, can be put into scriptToRun.php

Use jQuery
Javascript
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".myForm").submit(function() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "myForm.php",
data: $(this).serialize(),
success: function(response) {
// todo...
alert(response);
}
})
})
});
Html
<form method="POST" class="myForm">
<input type="text" id="a_field" name="a_field" placeholder="a field" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
PHP
<?php
if(isset($_POST)) {
$a_field = $_POST["a_field"];
// todo..
}

If you want to use PHP and HTML to submit a form try this:
HTML Form
<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" placeholder="Enter Name" name="name" />
<input type="submit" name="sendFormBtn" />
</form>
PHP
<?php
if(isset($_POST["sendFormBtn"]{
$name = isset($_POST["name"]) ? $_POST["name"] : "Error Response Here";
//More Validation Here
}

How to prevent from page refresh on submit button click

i have form with one input and one submit button.
<form method='POST' action='' enctype='multipart/form-data' id="form_search">
<input type='hidden' name="action" id="form_1" value='1' />
</span><input id="query" type="text" name="mol" value="">
<input type='submit' value='Search' name="Search" id="Search" />
on form submission form input data goes to php below code
if (isset($_POST['Search'])) {
$_SESSION["query"] = $_POST["mol"];
$_SESSION["action"] = $_POST["action"];
}
i want to avoid page refresh on form submission. i tried e.preventDefault() and return false;
methods in my java script but not working(this methods helping me from page refresh but does not allowing me to send data to php code)
please help me out of this problem, please suggest working ajax code for this problem.

Page refresh will delete you previous data so to reserve it you can use $.post() or $.ajax()
You can prevent page refreshing by adding one of these two things in event handler function
for pure js
return false;
for jquery you can use
e.preventDefault(); // e is passed to handler
Your complete code will be something like
using $.post() in js
function checkfunction(obj){
$.post("your_url.php",$(obj).serialize(),function(data){
alert("success");
});
return false;
}
html
<input type='submit' onclick="return checkfunction(this)" />
or same effect with onsubmit
<form onsubmit="return checkfunction(this)" method="post">

Without ajax you can simply add the checked attribute in PHP. So for example if your radio group has the name radio and one has value a, the other b:
<?php
$a_checked = $_POST['radio'] === 'a';
$b_checked = $_POST['radio'] === 'b';
?>
<input type="radio" name="radio" value="a"<?=($a_checked ? ' checked' : '')?>></input>
<input type="radio" name="radio" value="b"<?=($b_checked ? ' checked' : '')?>></input>
So when a user submits the form and you display it again, it will be like the user submitted it even the page refreshes.

<input type="radio" name="rbutton" id="r1">R1
<input type="radio" name="rbutton" id="r2">R2
<input type="button" id="go" value="SUBMIT" />
<div id="result"></div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#go').click(function(){
var val1 = $('input:radio[name=rbutton]:checked').val();
var datastring = "partialName="+val1;
$.ajax({
url: "search.php",
type: "POST",
data: datastring,
success: function(data)
{
$("#result").html(data);
}
});
});
});
</script>

preventDefault and JSONP

We have a form that should post data to an external domain. We are aware of the cross-domain limitations, therefore we want to use JSONP.
All parts are working fine, except for the part that should prevent a default form submission that reloads the page. Below is the form.
The html page:
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>test</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
<script src="https://gateway.wildfx.com/test.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" id="wild">
<fieldset>
<label for="email">Your email:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="wild">
<p class="wild_err">invalid</p>
<p>
<input type="hidden" id="wild_v" name="v" value="test2">
<input type="hidden" id="wild_l" name="l" value="">
<input type="hidden" id="wild_i" name="i" value="identifier">
<input type="hidden" id="wild_s" name="s" value="10612">
<input type="submit" id="wild_button" value="Check">
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Below is the Javascript. However, if the wild form is submitted, the page reloads instead of transfering the data with JSONp. In addition even the submission2 log isn't logged.
If tried to replace the .submit() with .click for the from button with correct ID but it isn't working either. What is wrong with the script?
function isValidEmailAddress(emailAddress) {
var pattern = new RegExp(/^((([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+(\.([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+)*)|((\x22)((((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(([\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f]|\x21|[\x23-\x5b]|[\x5d-\x7e]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(\\([\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0d-\x7f]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF]))))*(((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(\x22)))#((([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.)+(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.?$/i);
return pattern.test(emailAddress);
};
console.log('submission1');
$("#wild").submit(function(e) {
console.log('submission2');
e.preventDefault();
if (isValidEmailAddress(e["e"])) {
var e = {};
e["e"] = $("#wild_email").val();
e["v"] = $("#wild_v").val();
e["i"] = $("#wild_i").val();
e["s"] = $("#wild_s").val();
e["l"] = $("#wild_l").val();
(function() {
var wildAPI = "https://gateway.wildfx.com/testjsonp.php?jsoncallback=?";
$.getJSON( wildAPI, {
tagmode: e,
format: "json"
})
.done(function( data ) {
$(".wild_message_container").text('Success. you are in');
setTimeout(function() {
$("#wildnotifier-container").hide();
$("#wildnotifier-overlay").hide();
}, 5000);
});
})();
} else {
$(".wild_error").show();
$("#wild_email").addClass("wild_input_error");
}
});

You load jQuery
You load your script
Your script tries to add an event handler to the form
You add the form to your page
Step 3 fails because the form doesn't exist. Move the script so it is after the form. (Or put it in a function and call it with the DOM is ready).

One Javascript Control Multiple Form Submission

I am trying to build a page with multiple forms submitting different values to another php script "another-script.php" using Javascript as shown below:
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="simple-msg"></div>
<form name="ajaxform" id="ajaxform" action="another-script.php" method="POST">
<input type=hidden name=a value='value1'>
<input type="button" id="simple-post" value="Run Code" />
</form>
<form name="ajaxform" id="ajaxform" action="another-script.php" method="POST">
<input type=hidden name=a value='value2'>
<input type="button" id="simple-post" value="Run Code" />
</form>
<form name="ajaxform" id="ajaxform" action="another-script.php" method="POST">
<input type=hidden name=a value='value3'>
<input type="button" id="simple-post" value="Run Code" />
</form>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("#simple-post").click(function()
{
$("#ajaxform").submit(function(e)
{
$("#simple-msg").html("<img src='/logo/progress_bar.gif'/>");
var postData = $(this).serializeArray();
var formURL = $(this).attr("action");
$.ajax(
{
url : formURL,
type: "POST",
data : postData,
success:function(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
{
$("#simple-msg").html('<pre>'+data+'</pre>');
},
});
e.preventDefault(); //STOP default action
e.unbind();
});
$("#ajaxform").submit(); //SUBMIT FORM
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
The forms should be able to submit different values by themselves but when using Javascript to submit to a different script "another-script.php", only the first form works. Would you please kindly advise what I should do to make each form submitting their own values.
Thank you very much!

Uploading file in a form without page refresh

I have this bit of code:
<form name="myUploadForm" method="post" action="/scripts/upload.do" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="fileUpload">
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<input type="file" name="xlsFile" size="60" value="test.xls">
<input type="button" value="Upload File" name="upload_xls">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Right now I can upload the file with Struts but it refreshes the page. How do I do this without the page refreshing?

What worked for me:
On the form tag, I have target="hidden-iframe"
the hidden i-frame on the page looks like this:
<iframe name="hidden-iframe" style="display: none;"></iframe>
The important thing to underline here is that the form is referencing the name attribute of the frame and not the id.

You can post form with jQuery and get the result back.
$('#formId' ).submit(
function( e ) {
$.ajax( {
url: '/upload',
type: 'POST',
data: new FormData( this ),
processData: false,
contentType: false,
success: function(result){
console.log(result);
//$("#div1").html(str);
}
} );
e.preventDefault();
}
);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="formId" action="/upload" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<input type="text" name="title"><br>
<input type="file" name="upload" multiple="multiple"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Upload">
</form>
<div id="div1">
</div>

There are two methods:
HTML5 supports File API.
Create a hidden iframe, point the property 'target' of the form to the iframe's id.

If you can use jQuery, you can use something like jQuery File Upload.