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POST output into a modal from any form class on page

Sorry I am a beginner with jQuery and Javascript. I want to be able to get the results into my modal from any form on the page that has class ajax. My code is below but not working correctly. Currently it opens the post result in a new page and not in the modal. Can anyone shed any light on my code?
Many thanks
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.ajax').click(function() {
var that = $(this),
url = that.attr('action'),
type = that.attr('method'),
data = {};
that.find('name').each(function(index, value) {
var that = $(this),
name = that.attr('name'),
value = that.val();
data[name] = value;
});
console.log(value);
// AJAX request
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: type,
data: data,
success: function(response){
// Add response in Modal body
$('.modal-body').html(response);
// Display Modal
$('#aaModal').modal('show');
}
});
});
});

This probably happens because your browser submits the form by default. It doesnt know youre doing AJAX stuff. To prevent this, use preventDefault().
In addition to that, jQuery has a built in function for serializing (1 and 2) form data.
$(document).ready(function() {
$('form.ajax').click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault(); // prevents opening the form action url
var $form = $(this),
url = $form.attr('action'),
type = $form.attr('method'),
data = $form.serialize();
// console.log(value); // value doesnt exist outside of your loop btw
// AJAX request
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: type,
data: data,
success: function(response){
// Add response in Modal body
$('.modal-body').html(response);
// Display Modal
$('#aaModal').modal('show');
}
});
});
});
Also, its not quite clear if you bind the click event handler to a form or a button, I guess the first one. You should change the handler to the following:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('form.ajax').on('submit', function(event) {

How to Replace Form Without Triggering the Change Event?

I would like to validate a form with an AJAX request to the server and then swap the form html in the web browser with the form html from the server because this would be an easy implementation in theory. It is proving a nightmare though because the change event is triggered without the user interacting further after the first interaction which triggered the first change event. Consequently an infinite loop of AJAX requests to the server is happening.
The html form sits inside a div which has classes 'container mb-4'. This is the JS code -
var _cont = $('.container.mb-4')
var _form = $('.custom-form')
function ajax_validation(form) {
form.on('change', 'input, select, textarea', function() {
form_data = form.serialize()
$.ajax({
url: "/form/6/",
type: "POST",
data: form_data,
success: function(data) {
if(!(data['success'])) {
_cont.empty()
_cont.append(data['form_html'])
form = _cont.find('form')
ajax_validation(form)
}
},
error: function () {
form.find('.error-message').show()
}
});
})
}
ajax_validation(_form)
The change event I am assuming is triggered because the server returns a form input field with a different csrf token as the value to the previous input field - all other fields are the same. So an obvious solution would be to keep the same csrf token. But I want to understand why the JS code isn't working. I thought destroying the form would destroy the change event bound to it. So am at a loss to explain this infinite loop. How do I change this so I can just swap the form and not trigger another change event until the user really does change something?

It's not a good thing to use events in function no need to do that
Also your event here for input , select , textarea for serialize you need to select the closest() form
Try the next code
var _cont = $('.container.mb-4');
var _form = $('.custom-form');
_cont.on('change', 'form input,form select,form textarea', function() {
var ThisForm = $(this).closest('form');
var form_data = ThisForm.serialize();
$.ajax({
url: "/form/6/",
type: "POST",
data: form_data,
success: function(data) {
if(!(data['success'])) {
_cont.html(data['form_html']);
}
},
error: function () {
ThisForm.find('.error-message').show()
}
});
});
And logically if(!(data['success'])) { should be if(data['success']) {

First let's understand the issue that you have. You have a function called ajax_validation that is defining a change event on the form's elements which, on response will call ajax_validation. So, if any change happens on your elements, then a new request is sent to the server. So, if any value is changed, like a token, the request will be sent again. You could use a semaphore, like this:
var semaphore = true;
function ajax_validation(form) {
form.on('change', 'input, select, textarea', function() {
if (!semaphore) return;
semaphore = false;
form_data = form.serialize()
$.ajax({
url: "/form/6/",
type: "POST",
data: form_data,
success: function(data) {
if(!(data['success'])) {
_cont.empty()
_cont.append(data['form_html'])
form = _cont.find('form')
ajax_validation(form)
}
semaphore = true;
},
error: function () {
form.find('.error-message').show()
}
});
})
}
Something like this should solve your issue for the time being, but you should consider refactoring your code, because what you experience is well-known and is called callback hell.

Turns out the password field was coming back blank from the server - this django must do out of the box if the PasswordInput widget is used. So the form is replaced with a new form which lacks the password input from the before. The browser was then applying the autofill password value to the form which was triggering the change event.
This is my code now. It checks that the form_data about to be sent for validation really is different to before minus the csrf token which will be different.
It is based on Mohamed's answer -
var _cont = $('.container.mb-4');
var _form = $('.custom-form');
var prev_data = undefined
_cont.on('change', 'form input,form select,form textarea', function() {
var ThisForm = $(this).closest('form');
var form_data_wo_csrf = ThisForm.find("input, textarea, select").not("input[type='hidden']").serialize()
if(form_data_wo_csrf == prev_data) {
return
}
var form_data = ThisForm.serialize()
$.ajax({
url: "/form/6/",
type: "POST",
data: form_data,
success: function(data) {
if(!(data['success'])) {
_cont.html(data['form_html']);
prev_data = form_data_wo_csrf
}
},
error: function () {
ThisForm.find('.error-message').show()
}
});
});

PHP jQuery HTML - Getting custom HTML attribute

I have a PHP file which puts out all orders in the system and adds the custom attribute oid (order-id) to all the links. My links look like:
<a href='#' class='completeOrder' oid='$order_id'>$status</a>
Which gives correct html, when I do inspect element I get this
<a href='#' class='completeOrder' oid='8'>Un-completed</a>
What I would like to do is when this link is clicked, spawn a form with checkboxes and a submit button with the correct order ID in it's html to send. So I can send the form and the order id to another PHP file for processing ( in this case updating the order status ).
What I am doing to spawn the form with the checkboxes is using a jQuery AJAX call, but when I try to alert the order ID to check if jQuery got the oid correctly it tells me its undefined... :
$("body").delegate(".completeOrder", "click", function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
getCompleteOrderTools();
$(".content").toggleClass("hidden");
$('div.hidden').fadeIn(800).removeClass('hidden');
$("#notifications-drop").toggleClass('hidden');
});
function getCompleteOrderTools() {
var o_id = $(this).attr('oid');
alert(o_id);
$.ajax({
url: "action.php",
method: "POST",
data: {
getCompleteOrderTools: 1,
orderId: o_id
},
success: function(data) {
$(".row").append(data);
},
});
}

Your main issue was that you are referencing this in wrong context as the this available in your function getCompleteOrderTools is different that this that you wanted to refer for the click event of your desired link.
You have 2 options :
either use jQuery(this).attr('oid');
Or
use jquery data attributes
<a href='#' class='completeOrder' data-oid='$order_id'>$status</a>
jQuery(this).data('oid');
So your code with .attr will look like :
$("body").delegate(".completeOrder", "click", function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var myThis = $(this);//This is the 'this' corresponding to the link clicked
getCompleteOrderTools(myThis);
$(".content").toggleClass("hidden");
$('div.hidden').fadeIn(800).removeClass('hidden');
$("#notifications-drop").toggleClass('hidden');
});
function getCompleteOrderTools(myThis) {
var o_id = myThis.attr('oid');
alert(o_id);
$.ajax({
url: "action.php",
method: "POST",
data: {
getCompleteOrderTools: 1,
orderId: o_id
},
success: function(data) {
$(".row").append(data);
},
});
}

The jQuery object ain't passed to your function. You should do the following:
$("body").delegate(".completeOrder", "click", function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
getCompleteOrderTools(jQuery(this));
$(".content").toggleClass("hidden");
$('div.hidden').fadeIn(800).removeClass('hidden');
$("#notifications-drop").toggleClass('hidden');
});
function getCompleteOrderTools(_this) {
var o_id = _this.attr('oid');
alert(o_id);
$.ajax({
url: "action.php",
method: "POST",
data: {
getCompleteOrderTools: 1,
orderId: o_id
},
success: function(data) {
$(".row").append(data);
},
});
}
By passing jQuery(this) to your function, you now have full access to the jQuery object from your click event.

Targeting specific element jquery

I have searched this on the net however couldn't find a solution, simply I would like to replace the content inside button element with ajax response. The only problem I am facing is that, the whole divs are being changed not the one I click on. If I change the class to id only the first one changes not the specific button I want. So how do I replace the content of specific button?
PHP Code:
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){// there are four rows so I have 4 buttons.
echo "<button class=btn btn-primary test' value='."$row['id']".'>."$row['voteup']".</button>";
}
javascript code:
$(function() {
$('.test').on('click', function() { // attach the click to the button
var test_val = $(this).val(); // Grab the value from the button
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "test.php", // Move ?tar=vrate to the data array.
data: {tar: 'vrate', test: test_val},
cache: false,
success: function(response)
{
$(".test").fadeIn('slow').html(response);//this is replacing all 4 buttons not just one, if I change the class to id, only the first one is being replaced with the response. I also tried $( .test", this) but no luck.
}
});
});
});

$(function () {
$('.test').on('click', function () {
var test_val = $(this).val();
$.ajax({
// -------v Set the context of the callback
context: this,
type: "GET",
url: "test.php",
data: {
tar: 'vrate',
test: test_val
},
cache: false,
success: function (response) {
// v--and use `this` here
$(this).fadeIn('slow').html(response);
}
});
});
});

Try to use the $(this) reference here to achieve what you want,
$('.test').on('click', function() { // attach the click to the button
var test_val = $(this).val(); // Grab the value from the button
var $this = $(this);
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "test.php", // Move ?tar=vrate to the data array.
data: {tar: 'vrate', test: test_val},
cache: false,
success: function(response)
{
$this.fadeIn('slow').html(response);
}
});
});

Replace javascript onmouseover with jQuery only

I have a page that displays a dynamic amount of "orders" and I have a button to "view" and another button to "print". To display the specific OrderNumber I'm using a javascript function triggered by onmouseover and a jQuery ajax function to change the button text, make a database entry, and then view or print another page. The problem is the order is viewed or printed MULTIPLE times from onmouseover. How can use only jQuery and call the specfic OrderNumber? Here is the code I'm using now:
This code is repeated for each order:
<div class="console_orders_details">
<input type="button" value="View"
id="vieworder'.$row[orderid].'" onmouseover="vieworder('.$row[orderid].');">
</div>
Here is the function to view the order:
function vieworder(id){
$(function(){
$('#vieworder' + id).click(function(){
var orderid = id;
var dataString = 'orderid='+ orderid; //string passed to url
$.ajax
({
url: "includes/ajax/console-view.php", //url of php script
dataType: 'html', //json is return type from php script
data: dataString, //dataString is the string passed to the url
success: function(result)
{
window.open("print.php?view=1&orderid="+id+"");
$('#vieworder' + orderid + ':input[type="button"]').attr("value", "Viewed!").fadeIn(400);
}
});
})
});
}
I'm assuming I need to eliminate the "vieworder" function and use a pure jQuery function. However, I don't know how to send over the order "id", which is why I used javascript.

You can target all elements with an ID that starts with vieworder, and then store the row ID as a data attribute :
<div class="console_orders_details">
<input type="button" value="View" id="vieworder'.$row[orderid].'" data-id="'.$row[orderid].'">
</div>
JS
$(function(){
$('[id^="vieworder"]').on('click', function(){
var orderid = $(this).data('id'),
btn = $('input[type="button"]', this);
$.ajax({
url: "includes/ajax/console-view.php",
dataType: 'html',
data: {orderid : orderid}
}).done(function(result) {
window.open("print.php?view=1&orderid="+orderid+"");
btn.val("Viewed!").fadeIn(400);
});
});
});

Your onmouseover event is probably being fired many times, resulting in your problem. This might help to stop unwanted extra calls, by ignoring them unless the previous one has completed.
var activeRequests = {}; // global
function vieworder(id){
if (activeRequests[id]) { return; }
activeRequests[id] = true;
$(function(){
$('#vieworder' + id).click(function(){
var orderid = id;
var dataString = 'orderid='+ orderid; //string passed to url
$.ajax
({
url: "includes/ajax/console-view.php", //url of php script
dataType: 'html', //json is return type from php script
data: dataString, //dataString is the string passed to the url
success: function(result) {
delete activeRequests[id];
window.open("print.php?view=1&orderid="+id+"");
$('#vieworder' + orderid + ':input[type="button"]').attr("value", "Viewed!").fadeIn(400);
}
});
})
});
}

First, don't have a dynamic id that you have to parse, and don't have an event handler in your html:
<div class="console_orders_details">
<input type="button" value="View" class="vieworder" data-id="$row[orderid]">
</div>
Next, create an event handler for just what you want to do. .one() will set an event handler to fire only once:
$(document).ready(function (){
$(".console_orders_details").one("mouseover", ".vieworder" function(){
var dataString = "orderid=" + $(this).data("id");
$.ajax({
url: "includes/ajax/console-view.php", //url of php script
dataType: 'html', //json is return type from php script
data: dataString, //dataString is the string passed to the url
success: function(result) {
window.open("print.php?view=1&" + dataString);
$(this).val("Viewed!");
}
});
});
});
If you want this to work onclick, then just change the mouseover to click. Also, fadeIn doesn't work on values. Here is a fiddle that has the basics: http://jsfiddle.net/iGanja/EnK2M/1/