troubleshooting Question
Ajax and PHP
After reading and experimenting, I wrote a snippet of coding. I am beginning to understand and get the 'gist' of it but still newbie. I have it pretty clean except that when it returns my result, the form displays again and it goes downhill from there...what am I doing wrong??
Should I place the data validation in a separate page and just return the error message? I haven't inserted the coding to display a pop-up error message to user but that's something I would like to do too. What would that look like?
I have attached screen shots and have inserted the coding. Any advice would be much appreciated... I am really trying to learn this technique.
after-submitting.JPG
datepicker-display-error.JPG
Should I place the data validation in a separate page and just return the error message? I haven't inserted the coding to display a pop-up error message to user but that's something I would like to do too. What would that look like?
I have attached screen shots and have inserted the coding. Any advice would be much appreciated... I am really trying to learn this technique.
<?php
if (isset($_POST))
{
$begdate = isset($_POST['txtdepartdate']) ? $_POST['txtdepartdate'] : 'No Departure Date passed through<br>';
$enddate = isset($_POST['txtreturndate']) ? $_POST['txtreturndate'] : 'No Return Date passed through<br>';
// display them
$result = 'Departure Date:' . $begdate . ' Return Date: ' . $enddate;
echo $result;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Testing</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery-ui-1.12.1.custom/jquery-ui.min.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-ui-1.12.1.custom/external/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-ui-1.12.1.custom/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready
(function()
{
$("#search").click
(function(e)
{
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax
({
url: 'testajax.php',
type: 'POST',
data:{
'txtdepartdate' : $('#txtdepartdate').val(),
'txtreturndate' : $('#txtreturndate').val()
},
success: function(data, status){
$('#result').html(data)
}
});
});
});
</script>
<script>
$(function() {
$('input').filter('.datepicker').datepicker({
changeMonth: true,
changeYear: true,
showOn: 'button',
showButtonPanel: true,
buttonImage: 'jquery-ui-1.12.1.custom/images/calendar.gif',
buttonImageOnly: true,
dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy'
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="result">Dates should Display here</div>
<form>
<table style="margin: auto;">
<tr>
<div name="txtdepartdate">
<td style="text-align:right">Depart Date:
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="txtdepartdate" name="txtdepartdate" class="datepicker" />
</td>
</div>
<div name="txtreturndate">
<td style="text-align:right">Returning Date:
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="txtreturndate" name="txtreturndate" class="datepicker" />
</td>
</div>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
<table style="margin: auto;">
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center" colspan="4"><input type="submit" id="search" name="search" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
after-submitting.JPG
datepicker-display-error.JPG
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