Hi I would like to share a simple tip to all those who still dint get a simple straight-forward method to show validation errors of the form which has a ajaxSubmitButton.
Step 1: @ your controller action
public function actionMyAction()
{
$model=new User;
$this->performAjaxValidation($model);
if(isset($_POST['User']))
{
$model->attributes=$_POST['User'];
$valid=$model->validate();
if($valid){
//do anything here
echo CJSON::encode(array(
'status'=>'success'
));
Yii::app()->end();
}
else{
$error = CActiveForm::validate($model);
if($error!='[]')
echo $error;
Yii::app()->end();
}
}
}
Step 2: @ your view
Your form may look like this
<?php
$form=$this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', array(
'id'=>'user-form',
'enableAjaxValidation'=>true,
'action'=>$this->createUrl('myController/MyAction'),
'enableClientValidation'=>true,
));
?>
<div class="errorMessage" id="formResult"></div>
<div id="AjaxLoader" style="display: none"><img src="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/images/spinner.gif"></img></div>
<div class="row-user-single">
<?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'attribute1'); ?>
<?php echo $form->passwordField($model,'attribute1',array('size'=>60,'maxlength'=>500)); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($model,'attribute1'); ?>
</div>
<div class="row-user-single">
<?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'attribute2'); ?>
<?php echo $form->passwordField($model,'attribute2',array('size'=>60,'maxlength'=>500)); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($model,'attribute2'); ?>
</div>
<div class="buttons">
<?php echo CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton('Save',CHtml::normalizeUrl(array('myController/MyAction','render'=>true)),
array(
'dataType'=>'json',
'type'=>'post',
'success'=>'function(data) {
$("#AjaxLoader").hide();
if(data.status=="success"){
$("#formResult").html("form submitted successfully.");
$("#user-form")[0].reset();
}
else{
$.each(data, function(key, val) {
$("#user-form #"+key+"_em_").text(val);
$("#user-form #"+key+"_em_").show();
});
}
}',
'beforeSend'=>'function(){
$("#AjaxLoader").show();
}'
),array('id'=>'mybtn','class'=>'class1 class2')); ?>
<?php $this->endWidget();?>
This is working just fine for me 
And all the code written above are my style of writing. You may change them as required but,
there are only two things to be noted as follows:
-
@ your controller call validate of your model and return a json object if form is invalid
-
@ your view break this json object (OR traverse through it) and show the error messages under respective elements of the form.
Keep it simple
