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John
John

Reputation: 721

yii controller action won't fire from form

I'm trying get a simple ajax call working with yii, not using the native yii means. My goal is to populate state and city fields on input from a zip code field, using a db look up in the create action. I have a separate javascript file, 

    $('#Accounts_zip').bind('focusout',function(){     
    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
          url:'/gatesadmin/index.php?r=Accounts/Ziplookup',
          data: {zip:$('#Accounts_zip').val()},
          success:  function(datain, textStatus, jqXHR) {alert(datain.statecode);} ,
          error: function(jqxhr, textStatus, errorthrown){alert(errorthrown);},
          dataType:JSON
       });
    alert($('#Accounts_zip').val());
    });

and in my AccountsController I have: 

public function actionZiplookup()
{
    $z = new ZipDao();
    $row = $z->GetCityStateByZip($_REQUEST['data']);
    header('Content-Type: application/json; charset="UTF-8"');
    echo CJSON::encode(array('output'=>$row));
}

and my form is out of the box generated CRUD: 

...
    <div class="row">
    <?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'zip'); ?>
    <?php echo $form->textField($model,'zip',array('size'=>10,'maxlength'=>10)); ?>
    <?php echo $form->error($model,'zip'); ?>
</div>
...

I know the javascript is working because I get my alert, and if I call the URL directly yii fires the actionZiplookup event because I'm getting the returned json. I just can't seem to be able to get the form to invoke the ajax successfully because I get External Server error in the jquery ajax failure event. I've combed through the net and the closest examples I can find embed the javascript in the form itself and use the Yii::app()-createUrl() method to define the url, but there has to be a way getting the controller action to fire while keeping javascript code in a separate file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 757

Answers (1)

John
John

Reputation: 721

It turns out what I was missing can be found here: How to get response as json format(application/json) in yii? It all has to do with telling the controller to ignore the layout, etc.

Upvotes: 0

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