I am trying to use flowplayer's overlay to load an external page that has a django form built in.
However the overlay loads the page but the submit button simply refreshes the page.
How do i actually submit the values entered in the form?
<script src="http://cdn.jquerytools.org/1.2.5/full/jquery.tools.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
// if the function argument is given to overlay,
// it is assumed to be the onBeforeLoad event listener
$("a[rel]").overlay({
mask: {
color: '#ebecff',
loadSpeed: 200,
opacity: 0.9
},
effect: 'apple',
closeOnClick: false,
onBeforeLoad: function() {
// grab wrapper element inside content
var wrap = this.getOverlay().find(".contentWrap");
// load the page specified in the trigger
wrap.load(this.getTrigger().attr("href"));
}
});
});
</script>
<div class="bananas">launch</div>
my view boom has a model form.
Without seeing the actual view code, it's hard to give a helpful answer. In the future, please be sure to do so...
If you don't have the overlay programmed to redirect to the page, then submitting it to that same url might process/save the data without you noticing. Is the data being saved, or does absolutely nothing happen when you click 'submit'?
Generally, this is how it works: you need to be posting to a url, defined in urls.py, that points to a view function in your views.py. (These names are merely convention, and can be called whatever you like) You mentioned that you have a view named 'boom': is it defined in your urls.py like this?
url(r'^path/to/boom/$', 'model.views.boom',),
Check that this is defined and that your form is posting to it.
The view must then contain logic to process the request and return a response. Posting to that url will transfer a cleaned_data dictionary of form variables that can be accessed over the field names defined in the form. It looks like this: x = form.cleaned_data[x]. Check the form for its validity with form.is_valid(), and then do your processing. This can involve saving objects, running arbitrary code, whatever you wish.
To find out more, be sure to read the excellent documentation.
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I have navbar component which I have placed in an application.hbs so that it should be visible always.But I want to change the title of the navbar with each page I visit ( say I am on index page it should say "Home" , if I am on profile page it should say profile,etc).Right now what is happening is navbar title always remains "Home" for all the page.This is happening because the navbar gets rendered onlu during the time it loads the page in browser and after that it doesn't change according to page.
application.hbs
{{top-navbar dp_url=model.profile.dp_url first_name=model.profile.first_name title=title}}
{{outlet}}
Here the I am computing the value of title depending upon which page the user is.
application.js(controller)
if (currentPage === "" || currentPage === "#"){
currentState.set('title',"Home")
}
else if(currentPage === "Userprofile"){
console.log('myStudio');
currentState.set('title',"UserProfile");
}
In here the currentpage has the current url of app and I am comparing it and deciding the value of title for navbar.
But the top-navbar title value gets calculated only for the first time when user load the app in browser and not when I move ffrom one route to another.
I have also tried the Ember.Evented but not able to solve it.
I don't know what Ember.js and Ember-data version are you using, currentState is deprecated since 2.1, anyway looks like you're using a private method intended for Ember internals and not meant to be used in an application.
A possible (but maybe unnecessary complicated) way to accomplish what you want is:
Create a model with the information you want to mutate in the navbar (e.g. navbar-data).
In the route where the navbar is rendered, create and return a record for it using a fixed numeric ID (e.g. store.createRecord('navbar-data', { id: 1, title: "index" })).
Pass the created record to the component (instead of just a string).
Whenever you want to change, peek the record with store.peekRecord('navbar-data', 1) and change the value you want to change in the navbar.
Of course, the record you use for that must not be saved with record.save().
I have a form which I am validating using CFWheels model validation and form helpers.
My code for index() Action/View in controller:
public function index()
{
title = "Home";
forms = model("forms");
allforms = model("forms").findAll(order="id ASC");
}
#startFormTag(controller="form", action="init_form")#
<select class="form-control">
<option value="">Please select Form</option>
<cfloop query="allforms">
<option value="#allforms.id#">#allforms.name#</option>
</cfloop>
</select>
<input type="text" name="forms[name]" value="#forms.name#">
#errorMessageOn(objectName="forms", property="name")#
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
#endFormTag()#
This form is submitted to init_form() action and the code is :
public function init_form()
{
title = "Home";
forms = get_forms(params.forms);
if(isPost())
{
if(forms.hasErrors())
{
// don't want to retype allforms here ! but index page needs it
allforms = model(tables.forms).findAll(order="id ASC");
renderPage(action="index");
//redirectTo(action="index");
}
}
}
As you can see from the above code I am validating the value of form field and if any errors it is send to the original index page. My problem is that since I am rendering page, I also have to retype the other variables that page need such as "allforms" in this case for the drop down.
Is there a way not to type such variables? And if instead of renderPage() I use redirectTo(), then the errors don't show? Why is that?
Just to be clear, I want to send/redirect the page to original form and display error messages but I don't want to type other variables that are required to render that page? Is there are way.
Please let me know if you need more clarification.
This may seem a little off topic, but my guess is that this is an issue with the form being rendered using one controller (new) and processed using another (create) or in the case of updating, render using edit handle form using update.
I would argue, IMHO, etc... that the way that cfWheels routes are done leaves some room for improvement. You see in many of the various framework's routing components you can designate a different controller function for POST than your would use for GET. With cfWheels, all calls are handled based on the url, so a GET and a POST would be handled by the same controller if you use the same url (like when a form action is left blank).
This is the interaction as cfwheels does it:
While it is possible to change the way it does it, the documentation and tutorials you'll find seem to prefer this way of doing it.
TL; DR;
The workaround that is available, is to have the form be render (GET:new,edit) and processing (POST:create,update) handled by the same controller function (route). Within the function...
check if the user submitted using POST
if it is POST, run a private function (i.e. handle_create()) that handles the form
within the handle_create() function you can set up all your error checking and create the errors
if the function has no errors, create (or update) the model and optionally redirect to a success page
otherwise return an object/array of errors
make the result error object/array available to view
handle the form creation
In the view, if the errors are present, show them in the form or up top somewhere. Make sure that the form action either points to self or is empty. Giving the submit button a name and value can also help in determining whether a form was submitted.
This "pattern" works pretty well without sessions.
Otherwise you can use the Flash, as that is what it was created for, but you do need to have Sessions working. their use is described here: http://docs.cfwheels.org/docs/using-the-flash and here:http://docs.cfwheels.org/v1.4/docs/flashmessages
but it really is as easy as adding this to your controller
flashInsert(error="This is an error message.");
and this to your view
<cfif flashKeyExists("error")>
<p class="errorMessage">
#flash("error")#
</p>
</cfif>
I'm trying to create a website with articles. I have a page that displays a list of all the articles, and I try to do one that displays the detail of an article. I use angular.js to get the json of my datas. I don't have any problem to get the list of my articles since I only need to do :
function ArticleListCtrl($scope, $http) {
$http.get('/articles/?format=json').success(function(data) {
$scope.articles = data;
});
}
But now I only want to access for example the article with id 4. How do I do that ? Is there a way to inject the primary key entered in the url into the javascript ? I'm new to angular, and I'm pretty sure there is an easy way!
If I understand correctly, what you need is to define a partial template and a route,
for the detail view of your article.
An example is here
More specifically what you'd need is something like the following.
angular.module('myapp', []).
config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.
when('/articles/:articleId', {templateUrl: 'partials/article-detail.html', controller: ArticleDetailCtrl}).
otherwise({redirectTo: '/articles'});
}]);
What the above does, is to hijack urls of the form /articles/5/ and instead of actually
performing that GET request to your server, it will just ask for partials/article-detail.html. This of course will be your article detail template, which will be handled
by your ArticleDetailCrtl controller.
In your ArticleDetailCrtl controller function, don't forget to include the $routeParams
service. This will give you access to the url parameters, such as articleId, which we
defined above.
The final thing to do is to generate these links in your article list template. e.g:
<ul>
<li ng-repeat="article in articles">{{article.title}}
</ul>
I have a view that can take several seconds to process a GET request and render the results. I'd like to put up a temporary page that says "Processing..." while the view is doing its stuff. How can I do this?
UPDATE
I don't have any control over the link to my page. It is a link to me a third party has on their page. When they click it I run some stuff and display the results. I don't want them to have to click anything on the pages I display.
Ideally, I would like the following:
A user clicks a link to my website that is on a 3rd party website
My websites displays a "processing request" message - the user doesn't have to click anything, just wait.
After a few seconds the results are displayed.
All the user had to do was click a link once and wait for the results.
Some example code would be greatly appreciated as I am quite new to things like jQuery - if that's what I need.
Use jQuery to display the message while waiting for the view to return the result.
Place a hidden div-tag in the page containing the processing message/image.
If you submit the GET request by clicking a button you put an onclick event on the button to display the div-tag. When the view is done processing, the page will be reloaded and the target page will be displayed.
If the view is called using AJAX you can place the show/hide of the div in the ajaxStart and ajaxComplete events.
EDIT: OK since the page will be called from by a 3rd party it will complicate things a bit. I would suggest that you load the page without the data and once the page is loaded you do an AJAX GET request to retrieve the data.
You could do as follows:
Add a hidden div-tag to the page with the Progress message/image.
<div id="progress">Please wait while the page is loading.</div>
Then add the ajax GET call to the page:
$(document).ready(function () {
//Attach the ajaxStart and ajaxComplete event to the div
$('#progress').ajaxStart(function() {
$(this).show();
});
$('#progress').ajaxComplete(function() {
$(this).hide();
});
//Perform the AJAX get
$.get('/your_view/', function(data) {
//Do whatever you want with the data here
});
});
The above code has not been tested but it will give you an idea.
UPDATE
I would suggest that you return a JSON object or similar from your view:
companies = Company.objects.filter(name__istartswith=companyname)
results = [{'value': company.name, 'id':company.id} for company in companies ]
json = simplejson.dumps(results)
return HttpResponse(json, mimetype='application/json')
You can also use the getJSON() method instead of get() in jQuery.
very simple example:
<script>
showProcessingMessage = function() {
$("body").append('<div id="style_me_as_message">processing request</div>');
}
$("body").on('click', "a.slow", showProcessingMessage);
</script>
<a class="slow" href="/slow-response-page/">show slow page</a>
I have a web page where the user enters some data and then clicks a submit button. I process the data and then use the same Django template to display the original data, the submit button, and the results. When I am using the Django template to display results, I would like the page to be automatically scrolled down to the part of the page where the results begin. This allows the user to scroll back up the page if she wants to change her original data and click submit again. Hopefully, there's some simple way of doing this that I can't see at the moment.
It should already work if you provide a fragment identifier in the action method of the form:
<form method="post" action="/your/url#results">
<!-- ... -->
</form>
and somewhere below the form, where you want to show the results:
<div id="results">
<!-- your results here -->
</div>
This should make the page jump to the <div> with ID results.
It is complete client site and does not involve Django, JavaScript or similar.
You need to wrap your data into something like this:
<div id="some-id">YOUR DATA TO BE DISPLAYED</div>
and if you make redirect in your view you need to redirect to url: /some-url/#some-id
if you don't make redirect you need to scroll to the bottom using javascript (but note that redirect is preffered way to use in view after saving data).