How to make a form across multiple pages in Laravel like here
http://www.html-form-guide.com/php-form/php-order-form.html
I have a lot of input fields and i can't find any info on Laravel multiple pages forms. If someone has any good website where to read about it and to see how it is done?
Any help is appreciated.
You can achieve through session of laravel, you can set your values with key and value:
public function step1(Request $request)
{
$request->session()->put('key', 'value');
}
for further information see this link
Other way is make in your client side, with localStorage is cleaner for me, you can use Single Page Aplication and send the data when you're at the final step.
localStorage works seemed to PHP session, check out this link :
you can set the item thought steps, like this:
localStorage.setItem("key", "value");
and retrieve the information like this:
localStorage.getItem("key");
The Single Page application lets you render diferent pages in a route and it's not neccesary to reload the page, you can check out Angular or Ember.js Framework.
If you are looking to do this on server side and not with javascript framework here is what you can approach.
You can make use of Laravel session to store intermediate data between the pages and then pull data out of session to insert into database at the final step.
Detailed Tutorial
https://www.5balloons.info/multi-page-step-form-in-laravel-with-validation/
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I have been using Infusionsoft form embedded in html page but now I want to send data to Infusionsoft form using their API. I checked their APIs but could not figure out which one should be used to submit data to the Infusionsoft form. Can someone please help me with this?
https://developer.infusionsoft.com/docs/xml-rpc/
Thanks for looking into this.
Thank you, Naresh
Try to use REST API instead of XML RPC. Developer center already marked XML RPC to "legacy" module, and I guess they will replace "XML RPC" sooner or later.
Regarding to your question, you will need to define what data set you want to update.
For example, if your form is going to insert a new contact, you will need 2 things from your code.
First, prepare the parameters such like "email_addresses", "phone_numbers" and "given_name".
Second, POST request with parameters to this URL "https://api.infusionsoft.com/crm/rest/v1/contact?access_token=123abc" after authentication.
Ways to test:
Try REST API calls on page https://developer.infusionsoft.com/docs/rest/
Good luck.
To pull Webformvia API you will have to use following method, this will pull the HTML form:
Retrieve a Form's HTML
to submit a data to Infusionsoft via API
You will have to use Create contact and update contact API:
Create Contact
Update COntact
XML RPC is still in use but Infusionsoft suggests to use REST API methods
Create a Contact
Update a Contact
Single API call for two methods: Create or Update a Contact
New to ember and ember cli, and not having any JS based framework experience apart from jQuery (which is not a framework)
I find my self stuck at the very beginning compared to work done in Angular,
I have a static list of groups which are on REST api `http://localhost:8000/api/groups' and it is only 8 items there, I needed to show them as dropdown for a search criteria. Nothing fancy
I started with creating a route and model with the name of groups but app stopped working and I had to create a model for group which is identical to groups model, only having 2 items for dropdown
Now i have a url in my ember app http://localhost:4200/groups which I dont need and i dont want it to be there,
But I ignored it and had to create a dropdown of the cities, api is
http://localhost:8000/api/cities <-- All cities list, needed for admin
http://localhost:8000/api/cities/active <-- For clients to show active cities so they can add their records
http://localhost:8000/api/cities/filled <-- For users, to show them where clients are available
So in ember, I created a route and model for cities, and same model is copied as city just to show the list of cities in dropdown, I needed to show cities which are filled, I had created ember g route city/filled and it created folders, but its model is also same like other two models.
Ajax call is not being sent to city/filled url and now I ended up having
http://localhost:4200/cities // useless for me
http://localhost:4200/cities/filled //useless for me
and in filled i see that ajax call is made but to the http://localhost:8000/api/cities two times, loading same data. I tried adding a dropdown on my application and opened http://localhost:4200/cities/filled in browswer, and woosh, it send ajax call to the same url 3 times, one for application.hbs and one for cities.hbs and one for city/filled. Why load the same data 3 times if it is already fetched from same url within single request?
in angular I just call a custom url and I can get the data, but for ember its really hard to get grip on these small things and there is no help around
active and filled are filters for your cities resource and these are not standalone resources, so you should try to use them as query parameters. like
http://localhost:8000/api/cities?type=filled
http://localhost:8000/api/cities?type=active
Facebook uses this style for query params. You can also use query params for getting paginated data of a resource, like for 1st page and 25 records per page, the request will look like:
http://localhost:8000/api/cities?page=1&records=25
Lately I've been using cURL to post data back from a custom Magento controller to a custom page on the same website.
However, the way I do it somehow breaks Magento's log in data. So I've tried another way. Magento has cURL functionality built into it (Varien_Http_Adapter_Curl).
I've tried to Post through this, but so far it has been over my head and documentation on the web is fairly sparse. I need help with this. I've got a string with all the $_POST data ready to go. Please can someone tell me how to send it?
This:
$url="<URL>";
$curl = new Varien_Http_Adapter_Curl;
$curl->setConfig(array('timeout' => 15));
$curl->write(Zend_Http_Client::POST,$url, '1.1', array(), $poststring);
$result = $curl->read();
$curl->close();
...isn't sending data .
Edit:
I've tried the non-Magento cURL, but didn't know about session Data. I still have no Idea how to send session data, either.
Now, I've tried session variables, but the result is that I can set and extract data on one page, but when changing pages the data is lost. So, this can't be used currently between the controller and view.
better you can use the magento sessions
http://magento-rohan.blogspot.in/2012/03/magento-get-set-unset-session.html
here is this how to use it
You need to give us more information about what are you trying to achieve. Basically you need to tell us where are you sending POST request to? Perhaps another Magento instance or even same Magento website? Are you expecting user to have same session it is having now? Once you give us more info I will edit my answer. For now I will try to guess what is bothering you based on the input you gave.
When you are submitting POST request with curl from server side, that means that user is no longer interacting with the "page" you are trying to submit post request to.
If user is not interacting with it, that means it is not sending user session information.
Basically it looks like this:
Normally
Eric ->(Request with session info)-> Server (Oh it's you Eric, here is
the response just for you)
What are you trying to do
Eric ->(Request with session info)-> Server ->(Request without session
info)-> Server (This server doesn't know about Eric)
So to implement this correctly, if I am good at assuming what is your problem, just pass session information to the second server along with your request.
I will add more info if you tell me I am on the good track of understanding your problem.
---UPDATE---
You didn't explain your situation well. I am telling you this because your whole approach with the cURL may be bad decision from the start. For example, if you are trying to execute code in the same Magento codebase and that code is trapped inside some controller, perhaps you can refactor your code and encapsulate that logic inside some model and execute it directly.
But here is the example of passing session information over curl in plain php:
$strCookie = 'PHPSESSID=' . $_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'] . '; path=/';
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $strCookie );
Cookie should perhaps be called "frontend" in Magento. And I checked Varien_Http_Adapter_Curl it doesn't have any method for seting CURLOPT_COOKIE option so I suggest you go with plain curl setup. You also have an option to extend adapter and add that option by your self. Just override "_applyConfig" method.
Starting with Zend and I´d like to know what is the simplest way of sending POST data to another page, not by forms, but by some link in my view instead. Thanks :)
You can't send POST data through a link. At least not through a normal link. Link can only carry GET data.
If you need to send POST over a link it's most certainly a design flaw.
If you're 100% sure, that you need it, you can do that using jQuery and onclick event. It`s not possible to do it without javascript. Other option would be to send it using form with hidden fields with single submit button visible - that would even work without javascript.
Normal hyperlinks in HTML are sent with GET requests and are not supposed to change the state of the resource being accessed. This is known as being idempotent. You can repeat the request over and over, and the result of each succeeding request to the same URL is the same as the first one.
POST requests don't have this restriction and are intended for when the user needs to change something (such as creating a new resource.)
It's not possible to send a POST request via a normal HTML link. And even if you find a way, it breaks an almost universal expectation that web users have. What are you trying to accomplish? Maybe there's a better way.
But to answer your question, you could use something like jQuery to capture the "click" event and make it do a POST request:
$('.my-link').click(function() {
var url = $(this).attr('href');
var data = {};
$.post(url, data, function() {
window.alert('success!');
});
return false;
});
If your URL has any query parameters, i.e. "?foo=bar&baz=bum", then you'd probably need to strip them off of the URL and pass them as a second parameter to the $.post() function. This is left as an exercise for the reader. ;-)
I am using T4MVC to redirect to another action return RedirectToAction(MVC.MyController.MyAction());.
In result it is doing get request.
Is there any way to make post request from controller. I want to keep all the same but only make post instead get. I cant find any methods for that. I found one post helper here http://geekswithblogs.net/rakker/archive/2006/04/21/76044.aspx but i cant pass any values i need using this post helper. I was trying to pass values through TempData but they are not coming when i using this helper. May be some one have any ideas?
The reason i want to do this because when user come from one controller to another and then if user click update or just click enter in browser address bar, page will break.
Should i use session for that reason?
A RedirectToAction will always perform a GET, never a POST (it returns a HTTP 302 to the browser, which will then issue a GET request).
To persist data across the redirect, if it is data that can be easily represented as a string and stored in the query string, then you can just add it to the route values of the redirect.
e.g.
return RedirectToAction("Search", new { searchString = "whatever" });
If it is a complex type, then you will need to store it in TempData. A number of other questions on StackOverflow (such as this one) give details on how.
If repeatedly storing to and reading from TempData across your application offends your code-sense, then you can encapsulate this by using the PassParametersDuringRedirect attribute and generic RedirectToAction available in the MvcContrib project. Some details on this technique are available here.
only way of doing post is by having a form and doing submit on that form, either with a submit button or with javascript, any info you want passed to that action must be in that form and you will find everything posted in FormCollection(hope I spelled it right).