Yii2 - Form does not post ?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

I think that I am missing something simple here, I have a new installation of Yii 2 and a ajax validated form that does not post.

I echo out the time in the view and I see the time update when the submit button is clicked but $_POST is null.

In the log, I am seeing my info statments:

application POST =

application Attempting to load the model.

application Model was not loaded, rending the default view.

My first thought was the ActiveForm’s ID, but nothing seems to do anything.

When I set enableAjaxValidation=false, nothing changes.

Help Please :)

The Form code





use yii\helpers\Html;

use yii\widgets\ActiveForm;

use yii\helpers\ArrayHelper; //Needed for the dropdown list

use app\models\Modes;

use app\models\Schedules;




/* @var $this yii\web\View */

/* @var $model app\models\SettingsForm */

/* @var $form yii\widgets\ActiveForm */

/* @var $account app\models\Accounts */

.... omitting html code not relevant...


<div class="settings-form">


    <?php $form = ActiveForm::begin(['id' => 'settings-form','enableAjaxValidation'=>true]); ?>


    

    <?= $form->field($model, 'ModesID')->dropDownList(ArrayHelper::map(Modes::find()->all(), 'idModes', 'Name')) ?>

   

    <?= $form->field($model, 'SchedulesID')->dropDownList(ArrayHelper::map(Schedules::find()->all(), 'idScheduled', 'Name')) ?>


    <?= $form->field($model, 'SendEmail')->checkbox() ?>


    <?= $form->field($model, 'SendText')->checkbox() ?>


    <div class="form-group">

        <?= Html::submitButton('Update', ['class' => 'btn btn-success']) ?>

    </div>


    <?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>


</div>


    <?php 

    echo var_dump($_POST);

    echo '<br><br>';

    $date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());

    echo $date;

    ?>

The Controller code





use Yii;

use app\models\Accounts;

use yii\data\ActiveDataProvider;

use yii\web\Controller;

use yii\web\NotFoundHttpException;

use yii\filters\VerbFilter;

use yii\filters\AccessControl;

use yii\web\Response; //Needed for AJAX

use app\models\User;

use \app\models\SettingsForm;

use app\models\EmailForm;

use app\models\PasswordForm;

use app\models\ServerForm;

use \app\models\ProviderForm;


.... omitting actions and functions not relevant...


    /**

     * Shows the basic account settings

     * @return mixed

     */

    public function actionIndex()

    {

        $account = User::getAccount();

        if(!isset($account)) return $this->redirect(['site/logout']);

        

        $model= new SettingsForm();

        


        if(Yii::$app->request->isAjax && $model->load(Yii::$app->request->post()))

        {

            Yii::info('Ajax request loaded!');

            Yii::$app->response->format = Response::FORMAT_JSON;

            return \yii\widgets\ActiveForm::validate($model);

        }


        Yii::info( 'POST = ' . var_dump(Yii::$app->request->post()));

        

        Yii::info('Attempting to load the model.');

        if($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post())) 

        {

            Yii::info('Model loaded');

            //change the account

            $account->ModesID = $model->ModesID;

            $account->SchedulesID = $model->SchedulesID;

            $account->SendEmail = $model->SendEmail;

            $account->SendText = $model->SendText;

            

            if($account->save())

            {

                Yii::info('Model was saved');

                Yii::$app->session->setFlash('formSave');

                return $this->refresh();

            }

            else

            {

                Yii::info('Model was not saved');

                Yii::$app->session->setFlash('formError');

                return $this->refresh();

            }

        }

   

        Yii::info('Model was not loaded, rending the default view.');

        return $this->render('index', ['model' => $model,'account'=>$account]);

    }
2

Just for double-check, do you see these lines after you’ve clicked on ‘Update’? I mean, are you sure that these lines are not from the initial page loading sequence?

If so, then apparently the form is submitted without any content. And I don’t see anything suspicious in your code.

Maybe you could check and see what’s happening by tracing some variables in the first line of the action method.

3

Found the issue, adding it here in case anyone else makes the same mistake:

refreshing the page to show the flash was reloading the page, and thus not posting lol.

Commented out the refreshes and it works.




 if($account->save())

            {

                Yii::info('Model was saved');

                Yii::$app->session->setFlash('formSave');

                 

                //return $this->refresh();

            }

            else

            {

                Yii::info('Model was not saved');

                Yii::$app->session->setFlash('formError');

               

                //return $this->refresh();

            }