Submit A Form From Modal Dialog

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Here I go again with my newbie help requests. I need to submit a form after it’s shown in a modal dialog. The catch is, the form refers to a different model from the view that renders it. Let’s say I’m watching a list of classrooms and I want to show a dialog to insert a new student to one of them.

In my view (say classroom/index.php) I have this code for rendering the dialog button


$this->beginWidget(

    'bootstrap.widgets.TbModal',

    array('id' => 'myModal')

    ); ?>


    <div class="modal-header">

        <a class="close" data-dismiss="modal">&times;</a>

        <h4>Add a Student</h4>

    </div>


    <div class="modal-body">

        <p><?php $this->renderPartial('_myForm',array(),false)?></p>

    </div>


            <?php $this->endWidget(); ?>

            <?php $this->widget(

                'bootstrap.widgets.TbButton',

                array(

                    'label' => 'Click me',

                    'type' => 'primary',

                    'htmlOptions' => array(

                        'data-toggle' => 'modal',

                        'data-target' => '#myModal',

                        ),

                    )

                );

And the _myForm view file is


<div class="form">

    <?php


Yii::app()->clientScript->registerCoreScript('jquery');     

Yii::app()->clientScript->registerCoreScript('jquery.ui'); 


    

    $model = new Student(); //this is my model

    $form = $this->beginWidget('ext.AweCrud.components.AweActiveForm', array(

    'id' => 'student-form',

    'enableAjaxValidation' => true,

    'enableClientValidation'=> false,

    )); ?>


    <p class="note">

        <?php echo Yii::t('AweCrud.app', 'Fields with') ?> <span class="required">*</span>

        <?php echo Yii::t('AweCrud.app', 'are required') ?>.    </p>


    <?php echo $form->errorSummary($model) ?>


                    					<?php //form fields here.. ?>

			        			        			

    <div class="form-actions">

                <?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbButton', array(

			'buttonType'=>'submit',

			'type'=>'primary',

			'label'=>$model->isNewRecord ? Yii::t('AweCrud.app', 'Create') : Yii::t('AweCrud.app', 'Save'),

		)); ?>

        <?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbButton', array(

			'buttonType'=>'submit',

			'label'=> Yii::t('AweCrud.app', 'Cancel'),

			//'htmlOptions' => array('onclick' => 'javascript:history.go(-1)')

		)); ?>

    </div>


    <?php $this->endWidget(); ?>

</div>

I’m not sure how I should code my controller. Atm after submit nothing happens: and I’m not very surprised since there’s no specific action invoked. But I’m confused… Should I use the StudentController? Or the ClassroomController? And how? :(