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user288640
user288640

Reputation: 97

how to do an drupal form submit using ajax?

i have a custom module, in which i am submitting the form using drupal submit. ie using mymodule_submit() function. i want to ajaxify this submit using jquery. what all are the prerequisites for ajaxifying in drupal ? how to return the values and all? somebody please help . thanks in advance

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3462

Answers (3)

Ashish Singh
Ashish Singh

Reputation: 97

http://drupal.org/project/examples

  • you can refer to example module. It contains different types of ajax forms

Upvotes: 0

Ignacio Vazquez
Ignacio Vazquez

Reputation: 544

There are 2 ways:

  1. If you dont need to capture the submit response: Create a hidden iframe, and change the "target" attribute of the form to the iframe name. This can be done in 2 javascript lines, after form rendering.

  2. If you need to capture response: Use Jquery form plugin, so after submit you need to give a callback function passing he response as argument.

Upvotes: 1

berkes
berkes

Reputation: 27573

Several high-level concepts are important:

  • do it trough forms api. technically you can circumvent it and write your own form-tags (in plain HTML) but that brings more problems then its worth.
  • changing the behaviour of any form, is done in a so called hook_form_alter()
  • Changing the look and feel of any form is done in the theme layer
  • Then you can add ajaxified behaviour to a theme using AHAH. Note that in Drupal AHAH is slightly misnamed: it is only a particular subset and works only for forms.

Upvotes: 1

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