ajaxSubmitButton in CForm

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I am using CForm with some customized configurations for user inputs. The configurations of the CForm are altered via ajax on the fly so that I can add or delete CFormElements according to some preferences. This works great but I got problems adding a simple ajaxSubmitButton to my CForm configuration.

Is there an elegant way to add ajaxSubmitButtons to a CForm object? I don’t want to use CActiveForm as it isn’t that flexible

Thanks in advance!

2

Ok, after asking it came to my mind that I could use this workaround. Instead of adding the buttons via form-config I render the button in the partial view between the two <form> tags like this.


<div class="form">


    <?php

        echo $form->renderBegin();


        foreach($form->getElements() as $element)

            echo $element->render();


        echo CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton('search',

        array('/item/admin'),

            array(

            'method'=>'POST',

        ));

        

        

        echo $form->renderEnd();

    ?>


</div>
3

Thanks for sharing Haensel…

4

Hi,

i’ve got the solution.

  1. assign key ‘attributes’ to your button with an array as value

  2. assign key ‘ajax’ in array attributes and configure linke ajaxButton, ajaxSubmitButton.


            'buttons' => array(

                'login' => array(

                    'type' => 'submit',

                    'label' => 'Speichern',

                    'attributes' => array(

                        'class' => 'submit',

                        'ajax' => array(

                            'type' => 'POST', //request type

                            'url' => Yii::app()->createUrl($this->getId() . '/AjaxTest'), //url to call.

                            'update' => '#content', //selector to update

                        )

                    ),

                ),

            )

Best Regards

M. Bunge

5

Thanks! Really nice find!