[Rails] submitting forms help

Manish Shah
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:17:41 -0000

i had a different idea that i''m trying to get right.  Each sub form is
using
form_remote_tag to make an ajax call onsubmit. What i did was create a
javascript function that loops through all the forms and calls
document.forms[i].submit()

However, its not acting as if the person clicked the submit button for each
form.  I have :loading and :complete attributes set for each subform that
shows the user that the form was submitted and the server result, i''d
like
each of these to be triggered when calling document.forms[i].submit() which
i thought it would since they are triggered with the onsubmit event.

Am i missing something?  Please help.

Thanks in advance.

On 4/8/06, Peter Michaux <petermichaux@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I think you can only submit one form at a time. But there is a solution.
>
> Make your whole page one big form that submits to a particular action.
>
> For each "sub-form" make a button with a unique name. <button
> name="little_form_1"> tags or <input type=button
name="little_form_1>.
> You don''t use submit tags for this.
>
> For the entire form make a button with a unique name. <button
> name="all_forms">
>
> In the action that will process the form you will make a if else statement
>
> if params[:all_forms]
>
> elseif params[:little_form_1]
>
> end
>
> The above syntax may be a bit suspect but I''ve used something like
> this before. I think it is nice an clean. I''ve found that it is
best
> if forms submit their data back to the same action that created the
> form. This makes life easier. It also helps a lot with validation and
> redirects.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 4/8/06, Manish Shah <mnshah@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I cant seem to figure this problem out and i was hoping someone could
> help
> > me out.
> >
> > I have a page with a list of forms.  I would like the user to be able
to
> > submit each form individually, or submit them all at once, to a
> different
> > action (bascially, one that will do batch processing of all the
forms).
> >
> > Is this possble?  Please help.
> >
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