ZF3 redirect()->toUrl() not redirecting - redirect

Question

I'm having a weird issue with ZF3.
I have a vanilla form in the view and a jquery ajax to send it to the controller, something like this:
<form>some form</form>
<script>
$("#form").submit(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
method: "POST",
url: "stats",
data: {name: 'TEST'} // name selected in the form
});
});
</script>
The controller for action stats looks like this:
$stat = new Stat();
$route_name = $this->params()->fromRoute('name', 'none');
$post_name = $this->params()->fromPost('name', 'none');
if(!strcmp($route_name, 'none')) // if no redirection yet
{
if(!strcmp($post_name, 'none')) // if no form was sent
{
// display the form to choose the customer
return new ViewModel([
'customer_list' => $stat->get_customer_list(),
]);
}
else // if the form was sent, get name and direct to /stats/someName
{
return $this->redirect()->toRoute('stats', ['name' => 'someName']);
}
}
else // after redirection, get the name in the URL and show some data about this customer
{
return new ViewModel([
'avg_time' => $stat->get_avg_time(rawurldecode($route_name)),
]);
}
The problem is that the redirection does not occure on the screen but I still get the route parameter if I print $route_name after submitting the form.
Anyway, the goal is to have a form with a select to choose the customer name and load the customer data into /stats/[name]. Am I going in the wrong direction ? And is the redirection issue a bug or my code is wrong ?

Answer 1

So there I solved it thx to rkeet, this is the form & jquery:
<form id="customer_choice" method="POST" action=""> some form </form>
<script>
$("#customer_choice").submit(function () {
$("#customer_choice").attr('action', 'stats/' + $("#customer_select").val())
});
</script>
And this is the controller (hope no customer is named 'none'):
$stat = new Stat();
$name = $this->params()->fromRoute('name', 'none');
if(!strcmp($name, 'none'))
{
return new ViewModel([
'customer_list' => $stat->get_customer_list(),
]);
}
else
{
return new ViewModel([
'avg_time' => $stat->get_avg_time($name),
]);
}
The result is basepath/stats/[customer name] and changing the url manually works as well.
(if you don't want changing the url manually to change the result, use fromPost instead of fromRoute)