I have a form with few fields and I'm trying to get modified fields only.
Here is what I got so far (simplified version) :
<form name="formTicket">
<div class="item title">
<label for="category-assignation"><?php echo T::_("Assignation :")?></label>
<textarea type="text" name="assignation" cols="50" rows="4" id="category-assignation" data-ng-model="ticket.assignation"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="item title">
<input id="save" type="submit" value="Save" data-ng-click="saveTicketInfo()" />
</div>
</form>
In my controller.js, I have :
$scope.saveTicketInfo = function() {
console.info($scope.ticket);
console.info($scope.formTicket);
//Query to my service to save the data
Category.saveInfo.query({data: $scope.ticket});
};
Prior to AngularJs, I would save my fields in an array at the loading of my form and compare their values with the new values posted. I could still do this but I'm looking for an AngularJs approach.
I've been trying to use the $dirty property of each field and only send to my services those with "true" value but this behavior is not suitable for me : if the defaut value for my field is "test" and the user modify the input to "test2" and modify it back to "test" and post it, $dirty will be true (even if the value has not really changed).
Is there any convenient and optimal way to achieve what I want ?
Thank you for your time.
I'm using this method: http://plnkr.co/edit/A6gvyoXbBd2kfToPmiiA?p=preview to only validate fields on blur. This works fine, but I would also like to validate them (and thus show the errors for those fields if any) when the user clicks the 'submit' button (not a real submit but a data-ng-click call to a function)
Is there some way to trigger validation on all the fields again when clicking that button?
What worked for me was using the $setSubmitted function, which first shows up in the angular docs in version 1.3.20.
In the click event where I wanted to trigger the validation, I did the following:
vm.triggerSubmit = function() {
vm.homeForm.$setSubmitted();
...
}
That was all it took for me. According to the docs it "Sets the form to its submitted state." It's mentioned here.
I know, it's a tad bit too late to answer, but all you need to do is, force all forms dirty. Take a look at the following snippet:
angular.forEach($scope.myForm.$error.required, function(field) {
field.$setDirty();
});
and then you can check if your form is valid using:
if($scope.myForm.$valid) {
//Do something
}
and finally, I guess, you would want to change your route if everything looks good:
$location.path('/somePath');
Edit: form won't register itself on the scope until submit event is trigger. Just use ng-submit directive to call a function, and wrap the above in that function, and it should work.
In case someone comes back to this later... None of the above worked for me. So I dug down into the guts of angular form validation and found the function they call to execute validators on a given field. This property is conveniently called $validate.
If you have a named form myForm, you can programmatically call myForm.my_field.$validate() to execute field validation. For example:
<div ng-form name="myForm">
<input required name="my_field" type="text" ng-blur="myForm.my_field.$validate()">
</div>
Note that calling $validate has implications for your model. From the angular docs for ngModelCtrl.$validate:
Runs each of the registered validators (first synchronous validators and then asynchronous validators). If the validity changes to invalid, the model will be set to undefined, unless ngModelOptions.allowInvalid is true. If the validity changes to valid, it will set the model to the last available valid $modelValue, i.e. either the last parsed value or the last value set from the scope.
So if you're planning on doing something with the invalid model value (like popping a message telling them so), then you need to make sure allowInvalid is set to true for your model.
You can use Angular-Validator to do what you want. It's stupid simple to use.
It will:
Only validate the fields on $dirty or on submit
Prevent the form from being submitted if it is invalid
Show custom error message after the field is $dirty or the form is submitted
See the demo
Example
<form angular-validator
angular-validator-submit="myFunction(myBeautifulForm)"
name="myBeautifulForm">
<!-- form fields here -->
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
If the field does not pass the validator then the user will not be able to submit the form.
Check out angular-validator use cases and examples for more information.
Disclaimer: I am the author of Angular-Validator
Well, the angular way would be to let it handle validation, - since it does at every model change - and only show the result to the user, when you want.
In this case you decide when to show the errors, you just have to set a flag:
http://plnkr.co/edit/0NNCpQKhbLTYMZaxMQ9l?p=preview
As far as I know there is a issue filed to angular to let us have more advanced form control. Since it is not solved i would use this instead of reinventing all the existing validation methods.
edit: But if you insist on your way, here is your modified fiddle with validation before submit. http://plnkr.co/edit/Xfr7X6JXPhY9lFL3hnOw?p=preview
The controller broadcast an event when the button is clicked, and the directive does the validation magic.
One approach is to force all attributes to be dirty. You can do that in each controller, but it gets very messy. It would be better to have a general solution.
The easiest way I could think of was to use a directive
it will handle the form submit attribute
it iterates through all form fields and marks pristine fields dirty
it checks if the form is valid before calling the submit function
Here is the directive
myModule.directive('submit', function() {
return {
restrict: 'A',
link: function(scope, formElement, attrs) {
var form;
form = scope[attrs.name];
return formElement.bind('submit', function() {
angular.forEach(form, function(field, name) {
if (typeof name === 'string' && !name.match('^[\$]')) {
if (field.$pristine) {
return field.$setViewValue(field.$value);
}
}
});
if (form.$valid) {
return scope.$apply(attrs.submit);
}
});
}
};
});
And update your form html, for example:
<form ng-submit='justDoIt()'>
becomes:
<form name='myForm' novalidate submit='justDoIt()'>
See a full example here: http://plunker.co/edit/QVbisEK2WEbORTAWL7Gu?p=preview
Here is my global function for showing the form error messages.
function show_validation_erros(form_error_object) {
angular.forEach(form_error_object, function (objArrayFields, errorName) {
angular.forEach(objArrayFields, function (objArrayField, key) {
objArrayField.$setDirty();
});
});
};
And in my any controllers,
if ($scope.form_add_sale.$invalid) {
$scope.global.show_validation_erros($scope.form_add_sale.$error);
}
Based on Thilak's answer I was able to come up with this solution...
Since my form fields only show validation messages if a field is invalid, and has been touched by the user I was able to use this code triggered by a button to show my invalid fields:
// Show/trigger any validation errors for this step
angular.forEach(vm.rfiForm.stepTwo.$error, function(error) {
angular.forEach(error, function(field) {
field.$setTouched();
});
});
// Prevent user from going to next step if current step is invalid
if (!vm.rfiForm.stepTwo.$valid) {
isValid = false;
}
<!-- form field -->
<div class="form-group" ng-class="{ 'has-error': rfi.rfiForm.stepTwo.Parent_Suffix__c.$touched && rfi.rfiForm.stepTwo.Parent_Suffix__c.$invalid }">
<!-- field label -->
<label class="control-label">Suffix</label>
<!-- end field label -->
<!-- field input -->
<select name="Parent_Suffix__c" class="form-control"
ng-options="item.value as item.label for item in rfi.contact.Parent_Suffixes"
ng-model="rfi.contact.Parent_Suffix__c" />
<!-- end field input -->
<!-- field help -->
<span class="help-block" ng-messages="rfi.rfiForm.stepTwo.Parent_Suffix__c.$error" ng-show="rfi.rfiForm.stepTwo.Parent_Suffix__c.$touched">
<span ng-message="required">this field is required</span>
</span>
<!-- end field help -->
</div>
<!-- end form field -->
Note: I know this is a hack, but it was useful for Angular 1.2 and earlier that didn't provide a simple mechanism.
The validation kicks in on the change event, so some things like changing the values programmatically won't trigger it. But triggering the change event will trigger the validation. For example, with jQuery:
$('#formField1, #formField2').trigger('change');
I like the this approach in handling validation on button click.
There is no need to invoke anything from controller,
it's all handled with a directive.
on github
You can try this:
// The controller
$scope.submitForm = function(form){
//Force the field validation
angular.forEach(form, function(obj){
if(angular.isObject(obj) && angular.isDefined(obj.$setDirty))
{
obj.$setDirty();
}
})
if (form.$valid){
$scope.myResource.$save(function(data){
//....
});
}
}
<!-- FORM -->
<form name="myForm" role="form" novalidate="novalidate">
<!-- FORM GROUP to field 1 -->
<div class="form-group" ng-class="{ 'has-error' : myForm.field1.$invalid && myForm.field1.$dirty }">
<label for="field1">My field 1</label>
<span class="nullable">
<select name="field1" ng-model="myresource.field1" ng-options="list.id as list.name for list in listofall"
class="form-control input-sm" required>
<option value="">Select One</option>
</select>
</span>
<div ng-if="myForm.field1.$dirty" ng-messages="myForm.field1.$error" ng-messages-include="mymessages"></div>
</div>
<!-- FORM GROUP to field 2 -->
<div class="form-group" ng-class="{ 'has-error' : myForm.field2.$invalid && myForm.field2.$dirty }">
<label class="control-label labelsmall" for="field2">field2</label>
<input name="field2" min="1" placeholder="" ng-model="myresource.field2" type="number"
class="form-control input-sm" required>
<div ng-if="myForm.field2.$dirty" ng-messages="myForm.field2.$error" ng-messages-include="mymessages"></div>
</div>
</form>
<!-- ... -->
<button type="submit" ng-click="submitForm(myForm)">Send</button>
I done something following to make it work.
<form name="form" name="plantRegistrationForm">
<div ng-class="{ 'has-error': (form.$submitted || form.headerName.$touched) && form.headerName.$invalid }">
<div class="col-md-3">
<div class="label-color">HEADER NAME
<span class="red"><strong>*</strong></span></div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-9">
<input type="text" name="headerName" id="headerName"
ng-model="header.headerName"
maxlength="100"
class="form-control" required>
<div ng-show="form.$submitted || form.headerName.$touched">
<span ng-show="form.headerName.$invalid"
class="label-color validation-message">Header Name is required</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<button ng-click="addHeader(form, header)"
type="button"
class="btn btn-default pull-right">Add Header
</button>
</form>
In your controller you can do;
addHeader(form, header){
let self = this;
form.$submitted = true;
...
}
You need some css as well;
.label-color {
color: $gray-color;
}
.has-error {
.label-color {
color: rgb(221, 25, 29);
}
.select2-choice.ui-select-match.select2-default {
border-color: #e84e40;
}
}
.validation-message {
font-size: 0.875em;
}
.max-width {
width: 100%;
min-width: 100%;
}
To validate all fields of my form when I want, I do a validation on each field of $$controls like this :
angular.forEach($scope.myform.$$controls, function (field) {
field.$validate();
});
I would like to create a requirement that if nothing is selected from a drop down field in my contact form that a message will come up saying "Please choose", and the form will not be able to be submitted unless something is chosen. I have gotten requirements to work on all of my text input forms, but cannot figure out how to create one for the drop down field.
The drop down HTML looks like this:
<div class='container'>
<label for='destemail' > Which department are you trying to reach?*</br> You must select a department.</label></br>
<select name="destemail" id="destemail">
<?php foreach ($emailAddresses as $name => $email) { ?>
<option value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($name); ?>"><?php echo htmlspecialchars($name) ; ?></option>
<?php } ?></select>
<span id='contactus_destemail_errorloc' class='error'></span>
</div>
I got the other form requirements to work like so:
The HTML -
<div class='container'>
<label for='name' >Your Full Name*: </label><br/>
<input type='text' name='name' id='name' value='<?php echo $formproc->SafeDisplay('name') ?>' maxlength="50" /><br/>
<span id='contactus_name_errorloc' class='error'></span>
</div>
The Javascript -
<script type='text/javascript'>
<![CDATA[
var frmvalidator = new Validator("contactus");
frmvalidator.EnableOnPageErrorDisplay();
frmvalidator.EnableMsgsTogether();
frmvalidator.addValidation("name","req","Please provide your name");
</script>
The PHP -
//name validations
if(empty($_POST['name']))
{
$this->add_error("Please provide your name");
$ret = false;
}
I tried the exact same coding for the drop down but with the different id names where appropriate, and it didn't work. Why doesn't this same method work for the drop down?
Help much appreciated!
I can't see what the Validator() code is doing, but you can just check to see whether the select field is empty using Javascript or jQuery.
jQuery way:
if( !$('#destemail').val() ) {
alert('Empty');
}
The problem may lie in that your select box actually does have a value, which is whatever the first value printed out in it is. The Validation function may be checking for any value, and since the select does have one, it returns as valid.
You could set up a default value to show first, something like "Please select a Department", and then do the jquery/javascript check for that text. If it exists, then you know an option has not been selected.
I have a form in Razor I am checking for the post in a form in a Razor macro. I am checking for the form being posted with the in built IsPost variable. I need to get the value from the form (the url) and then the page to the value.
form action="" method="POST">
<select>
<option>Please Select</option>
#foreach(var item in #Model.events){
<option value="#item.Url">#item.Name</option>
}
</select>
<button id="SubmitForm" type="submit">Submit Enquiry</button>
<p>#Message</p>
</form>
You're going to want to give your select an id, but you should be able to accomplish what you want by accessing the value of the select using Request collection and then redirecting to the selected url with a Response.Redirect().
Example:
if (IsPost)
{
string url = Request["selectId"] as string;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(url))
{
Response.Redirect(url);
}
}
My policyInfoAction redirects my form to clientInfoAction. It stores the empty field errors and then validates the fields in the session variables and redirects it to the client-info page if it contains errors.
It works fine. But the problem is the next time I hit the /client-info page in a new tab it shows the form values in the fields. I have to hit the refresh page to clear it out. I do not want it to display cached data when I open the link in a new tab. What should I do?
public function clientInfoAction(){
//If there are some errors and some valid fields, display the valid fields
$client=$this->session->client;
$state=$this->session->state;
unset($this->session->client, $this->session->state); // delete from the
// assign the values to the view
$this->view->client = $client;
$this->view->state = $state;
}
Here is my view:
<form action ="/pdp/policy-info/" method='post'">
<label for="client_name">Client Name: </label>
<input type="text" name="client_name" id="client_name">
<?php if (!empty($this->client_error)) echo "<font size='2' color ='#C11B17'>".$this->client_error."</font>"; ?>
<br><br>
<label for="state">State: </label>
<select name="state" id='state'>
<option id='state' value="" selected="selected"></option>