ajaxSubmitButton() Not Generating $_POST['ajax']

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I have got to be missing something (or many things) here. I can never get the built-in Ajax functionality to work in Yii. I always end up having to add my own jQuery to handle things which seems to defeat the purpose. So, I figure I’m missing something.

In this case, I’m trying to create a VERY simple form for submitting a new email address. I want to send the data via Ajax, so I’m using the ajaxSubmitButton. Based on samples and tutorials I’ve looked at, I was expecting the ajaxId to be passed along so that I can check against it in the controller. But I am only getting the text input for the email address, and no validation has been happening, no matter what I do to set those options in the code.

Here is my form:




		<?php 

		$emailModel = new Email;

		$form = $this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', array(

			'id'=>'email-form',

			'action'=>'site/signup',

			'enableAjaxValidation'=>false,

			'enableClientValidation'=>false,

			'clientOptions'=>array('validateOnSubmit'=>true, 'ajaxVar'=>'ajax'),

			'htmlOptions'=>array('onsubmit'=>'return false'),

		));

		

		echo $form->errorSummary($emailModel);

		

		echo $form->labelEx($emailModel, 'address');

		echo $form->textField($emailModel, 'address');

		echo $form->error($emailModel, 'address');

		echo CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton('count me in!',

                        $this->createUrl('site/signup'),

			array('type'=>'post'),

			array('class'=>'yes')

		);

		

		$this->endWidget();

		?>

For now, I’ve set any validation to false, just to try to get things working. Here is my controller function:


	

public function actionSignup() {

		if(isset($_POST['ajax'])) {

			echo "Ajax!";

		} else {

			echo "Nope";

		}

	}

As you can see, I’m simply checking for that $_POST[‘ajax’] value. I’m not even interested, right now, in the response. Truth be told, it’s not utterly necessary that I have that value, but when I saw that validation wasn’t working, I got suspicious about that ID being missing, as well. I’ve looked at the JavaScript that is produced in the source code by the ajaxSubmitButton, and I really don’t see anything that would send along that ID. I guess I’ll worry about validation later, too, unless someone sees something terribly wrong, here (besides setting validation to false).

BTW, in my rules, I’ve included:


array('address', 'required')

which is the only thing I’m checking, right now.

Anybody understand how that $_POST[‘ajax’] value gets sent?

Thanks!