I am new to PHP Codeigniter framework. I am designing a page in which I am using a link. On clicking the link it is calling a jquery function, which submits form through jquery. I have used codeigniter form validation methods for server side validation and for the timebeing I have disabled the client side validation.
The problem is that in this process when the form is submitted through jquery, the codeigniter form validation method is not working.
But if I am using a submit button to submit the form then the codeigniter form validation method works perfectly.
Please advise me what to do if I need to submit the form through jquery and use the codeigniter form validation method.
Please find the code below:
Login Form:
<?php echo validation_errors(); ?>
<form name="login-form" id="login-form" method="post" action="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/login/login_form" >
<H2>Login</H2>
<div id="login-box-name">
Email:
</div>
<div id="login-box-field">
<input name="user-name" id="user-name" class="form-login" title="Please Enter Correct User Name" value="" size="30" maxlength="2048" />
</div>
<div id="login-box-name">
Password:
</div>
<div id="login-box-field">
<input name="password" id="password" type="password" class="form-login" title="Please Enter Correct Password" value="" size="30" maxlength="2048" />
</div>
<br />
<span class="login-box-options">
<input type="checkbox" name="1" value="1" title="Want this computer to remember you!!"> Remember Me <a href="#" id="login-div-change">Forgot password?</a>
</span>
<br />
<br />
<a href="" id="login-submit">
<img src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/images/login-btn.png" width="110" height="40" style="margin-left:90px;" />
</a>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
jquery function to submit the form on clicking the "link":
$("#login-submit").click(function() { $('#login-form').submit(); return false; });
Controller function:
public function login_form() { $this->load->helper(array('form', 'url')); $this->load->library('form_validation'); $data['title'] = 'Log In'; $data['errorMessage'] = ''; $this->form_validation->set_rules('user-name', 'Email', 'required'); $this->form_validation->set_rules('password', 'Password', 'required'); if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE) { $this->load->view('templates/header', $data); $this->load->view('login', $data); $this->load->view('templates/footer'); } else { $this->load->view('templates/header', $data); $this->load->view('templates/menu'); $this->load->view('index', $data); $this->load->view('templates/footer'); } }
Here if I click on the "Submit button of the form, then the codeigniter validation works for user-name and password fields. But if I click the link with id="login-submit", then it calls the jquery function and the form get submitted. But the codeigniter validation does not work for user-name and password fields this time.
I need to submit the form through the link and the codeigniter validation function should work for this.
Thanks in Advance.....
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