Re: optional form :remote ?

Philip Hallstrom
Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:39:40 -0000

> Is it possible to have a form submit normally if button X is pushed
> and do an AJAX call if button Y is pushed?
>
> My use case:
>
> I''m letting users do some customizations and I want a preview
button
> and a save button.   Hitting preview submits the current form values
> as an AJAX call and the returned javascript generates a preview.  When
> they are happy with the results they hit save which should just submit
> the form normally.
>
> I guess another option would be to have a separate form for the AJAX
> preview function that copies all the values from the main form.
>
> Any pointers?

Use jQuery''s .post and .serialize methods to grab the data and submit
it via ajax... then do whatever you want with it on the backend...

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