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Posted on 2011-03-07
I have a question about this example:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/submit-a-form-without-page-refresh-using-jquery/
I am using coldfusion and jquery to have someone fill out the form, validate the name and email address and then insert it into my database. However, I would also like to check the database to make sure that I don't get duplicate email addresses. How would I go about doing that?
I am using the same code as shown on that website. The only difference is that I don't have a return phone field. I only have name and email address.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/submit-a-form-without-page-refresh-using-jquery/
I am using coldfusion and jquery to have someone fill out the form, validate the name and email address and then insert it into my database. However, I would also like to check the database to make sure that I don't get duplicate email addresses. How would I go about doing that?
I am using the same code as shown on that website. The only difference is that I don't have a return phone field. I only have name and email address.
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There are at least two ways to accomplish that: First, you could modify the sucess() function to check the result return by the server: The function can be defined as follows:
Data is the data return by your server, textStatus the status the request returned, and jqXHR is the XMLHttpRequest object used for the request. You can have the server return different values when the email was added and when it already existed, and react accordingly in the sucess() function by checking out the data argument.
The second, and perhaps better way would be to let the server return a http error on duplicate email addresses and change the ajax call to include an error handler (similar to the success handler). Something like this:
success(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
Data is the data return by your server, textStatus the status the request returned, and jqXHR is the XMLHttpRequest object used for the request. You can have the server return different values when the email was added and when it already existed, and react accordingly in the sucess() function by checking out the data argument.
The second, and perhaps better way would be to let the server return a http error on duplicate email addresses and change the ajax call to include an error handler (similar to the success handler). Something like this:
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "bin/process.php",
data: dataString,
success: function() {
$('#contact_form').html("<div id='message'></div>");
$('#message').html("<h2>Contact Form Submitted!</h2>")
.append("<p>We will be in touch soon.</p>")
.hide()
.fadeIn(1500, function() {
$('#message').append("<img id='checkmark' src='images/check.png' />");
},
error: function() {
[... your error handling code here ...]
});
}
});
I really like the 2nd option...but what do you mean by have the server return a http error on a duplicate email?
Currently I am trying to use a simple query to tell if the email address exists:
<cfquery name="check" datasource="lbdb_">
Select * from tbl_member
where member_email = '#url.email#'
</cfquery>
<cfif check.recordCount eq 0>
query to insert into database and a message to the user
</cfif>
What would I have to do to get your 2nd option to work?
Thanks for the help.
Currently I am trying to use a simple query to tell if the email address exists:
<cfquery name="check" datasource="lbdb_">
Select * from tbl_member
where member_email = '#url.email#'
</cfquery>
<cfif check.recordCount eq 0>
query to insert into database and a message to the user
</cfif>
What would I have to do to get your 2nd option to work?
Thanks for the help.
Uh, I'm sorry, I'm not really into coldfusion. It should, however, be possible to make the server return an http error (like the well known error 404 not found) to the browser. Maybe it works like this:
There are a lot of error codes defined in http, see here: http://www.w3.org/Protocol
<cfheader statuscode="400" statustext="Bad Request" />
<cfabort />
There are a lot of error codes defined in http, see here: http://www.w3.org/Protocol
Sorry for the delayed response...my day got cut short yesterday.
I tried using cfheader and it shows the error when I use firebug, but it doesn't actually fire off the error function I defined. I've attached a snippet of the code, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Here is main part of my js file
Here is my coldfusion file
I tried using cfheader and it shows the error when I use firebug, but it doesn't actually fire off the error function I defined. I've attached a snippet of the code, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Here is main part of my js file
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "addMember.cfm?" + dataString,
data: dataString,
success: function(result) {
$('#contact_form').html(result);
}
error: function() {
alert('hello');
}
});
Here is my coldfusion file
<cfset cDate = dateformat(now(), 'mm/dd/yyyy')>
<cfquery name="check" datasource="lbdb_">
Select * from tbl_member
where member_email = '#url.email#'
</cfquery>
<cfif check.recordCount eq 0>
<cfquery name="addMember" datasource="lbdb_">
insert into tbl_member (member_name, member_email, member_date)
values ('#url.name#', '#url.email#', #createODBCDate(cdate)#)
</cfquery>
<div id="message">Thank you for subscribing</div>
<cfelse>
<cfheader statuscode="400" statustext="Bad Request" />
<cfabort />
</cfif>
In the js code you posted, there is a comma missing at the end of the line before
error: function() {
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