I'm new to jQuery and have tried looking around for an answer on how to do this. I have 2 functions and I would like both to
work together. The one function is submitHandler and its used to hide a form and at the same time add a class to a hidden element to unhide it - ie a thank you for submitting h1. The other function is to grab the input data and display it onsubmit in the form. So the problem is that I can get that one to
work but then the other doesnt. Ie on form submit I can see the data input but not the h1 Thank you message.
Here are the functions:
SubmitHandler:
submitHandler: function() {
$("#content").empty();
$("#content").append(
"<p>If you want to be kept in the loop...</p>" +
"<p>Or you can contact...</p>"
);
$('h1.success_').removeClass('success_').addClass('success_form');
$('#contactform').hide();
},
onsubmit="return inputdata()"
function inputdata(){
var usr = document.getElementById('contactname').value;
var eml = document.getElementById('email').value;
var msg = document.getElementById('message').value;
document.getElementById('out').innerHTML = usr + " " + eml + msg;
document.getElementById('out').style.display = "block";
return true;
},
The form uses PHP and jQuery - I dont know about AJAX but after some reading even less sure. Please help me out I dont know what I'm doing and at the moment I am learning but its a long road for me still.
Thank you
The form:
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" id="contactform" onsubmit="return inputdata()">
<div class="_required"><p class="label_left">Name*</p><input type="text" size="50" name="contactname" id="contactname" value="" class="required" /></div><br/><br/>
<div class="_required"><p class="label_left">E-mail address*</p><input type="text" size="50" name="email" id="email" value="" class="required email" /></div><br/><br/>
<p class="label_left">Message</p><textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="message" id="message" class="required"></textarea><br/>
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" id="submit" />
</form>
The PHP bit:
<?php
$subject = "Website Contact Form Enquiry";
//If the form is submitted
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
//Check to make sure that the name field is not empty
if(trim($_POST['contactname']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else {
$name = trim($_POST['contactname']);
}
//Check to make sure sure that a valid email address is submitted
if(trim($_POST['email']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else if (!eregi("^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$", trim($_POST['email']))) {
$hasError = true;
} else {
$email = trim($_POST['email']);
}
//Check to make sure comments were entered
if(trim($_POST['message']) == '') {
$hasError = true;
} else {
if(function_exists('stripslashes')) {
$comments = stripslashes(trim($_POST['message']));
} else {
$comments = trim($_POST['message']);
}
}
//If there is no error, send the email
if(!isset($hasError)) {
$emailTo = '
[email protected]'; //Put your own email address here
$body = "Name: $name \n\nEmail: $email \n\nComments:\n $comments";
$headers = 'From: My Site <'.$emailTo.'>' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email;
mail($emailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
$emailSent = true;
}
}
?
The Jquery Validate bit:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#contactform').validate({
showErrors: function(errorMap, errorList) {
//restore the normal look
$('#contactform div.xrequired').removeClass('xrequired').addClass('_required');
//stop if everything is ok
if (errorList.length == 0) return;
//Iterate over the errors
for(var i = 0;i < errorList.length; i++)
$(errorList[i].element).parent().removeClass('_required').addClass('xrequired');
},
Here is the full jQuery bit:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#contactform').validate({
showErrors: function(errorMap, errorList) {
//restore the normal look
$('#contactform div.xrequired').removeClass('xrequired').addClass('_required');
//stop if everything is ok
if (errorList.length == 0) return;
//Iterate over the errors
for(var i = 0;i < errorList.length; i++)
$(errorList[i].element).parent().removeClass('_required').addClass('xrequired');
},
submitHandler: function() {
$('h1.success_').removeClass('success_').addClass('success_form');
$("#content").empty();
$("#content").append('#sadhu');
$('#contactform').hide();
},
});
});
Latest edit - Looks like this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#contactform').validate({
showErrors: function(errorMap, errorList) {
//restore the normal look
$('#contactform div.xrequired').removeClass('xrequired').addClass('_required');
//stop if everything is ok
if (errorList.length == 0) return;
//Iterate over the errors
for(var i = 0;i < errorList.length; i++)
$(errorList[i].element).parent().removeClass('_required').addClass('xrequired');
},
function submitHandler() {
$('h1.success_').removeClass('success_').addClass('success_form');
$("#content").empty();
$("#content").append('#sadhu');
$('#contactform').hide();
},
function inputdata() {
var usr = document.getElementById('contactname').value;
var eml = document.getElementById('email').value;
var msg = document.getElementById('message').value;
document.getElementById('out').innerHTML = usr + " " + eml + msg;
document.getElementById('out').style.display = "block";
},
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#contactForm').submit(function() {
inputdata();
submitHandler();
});
});
});
