I want to return to my modal dialog edit form to show validation errors but using Redirect::back
I just end up at the HTML page without the modal window.
I use BootstrapDialog to load my attendee.edit
route into a modal dialog to that pops up an edit form.
HTML
<td>{{link_to_route('attendee.edit','',array($attendee->id), array(
'class'=>'edit-attendee btn btn-info btn-xs glyphicon glyphicon-pencil',
'data-title' => 'Edit Attendee'))}}
</td>
JQuery call to BootstrapDialog
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.btn.edit-attendee').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
url = $(this).attr('href');
BootstrapDialog.show({
title: $(this).data('title'),
message: $('<div></div>').load(url),
buttons: [{
label: 'Update',
action: function(dialogRef) {
$('form').submit();
}
}]
});
});
});
Controller
public function update($id)
{
$attendee = Attendee::findOrFail($id);
$validator = Validator::make($data = Input::all(), Attendee::$rules);
if ($validator->fails())
{
return Redirect::back()->withErrors($validator)->withInput();
}
$attendee->update($data);
return Redirect::route('attendees.index');
}
After I edit the form I want to return to the modal window to display validation errors but I just end up at the HTML page without the dialog. How do I redirect back to the modal window?
UPDATE
added id
to controller return
return Redirect::back()->withErrors($validator)->withInput()->with('id', $id);
Added Jquery
@if(!empty(Session::get('id')))
$(document).ready(function(){
url = "{{ URL('attendee') . '/' . Session::get('id'). '/edit' }}";
BootstrapDialog.show({
title: $(this).data('title'),
message: $('<div></div>').load(url),
buttons: [{
label: 'Update',
action: function(dialogRef) {
$('form').submit();
}
}]
});
});
@endif
This reopens the modal window if there was an error but proceeds back if not. I don't like how it closes and reopens the modal and the validation errors are not passed to the modal so I would not recommend doing it this way.
I just did something like this. You just need to use blade's templating!
//pass back a variable when redirecting
return Redirect::back()->with('error_code', 5);
And then in your blade template:
@if(!empty(Session::get('error_code')) && Session::get('error_code') == 5)
<script>
$(function() {
$('#myModal').modal('show');
});
</script>
@endif
This will opens the dialog whenever there is error_code is present and equals to 5!