Yii bootstrap submit a form inside a modal window using the modal buttons - forms

Question

I'm trying to submit a form from inside a modal window using the modal buttons in the modal-footer.
The form itself is loaded through ajax from a link (controller/action).
Just to be clearer I attached this picture:
This is the code for the modal:
<?php $this->beginWidget('bootstrap.widgets.TbModal', array('id'=>'modal')); ?>
<div class="modal-header">
<a class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</a>
<h4>Client Ticket Status Update</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbButton', array(
'buttonType'=>'ajaxSubmit',
'type'=>'primary',
'label'=>'Save changes',
'url'=>'#',
'htmlOptions'=>array('data-dismiss'=>'modal'),
)); ?>
<?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbButton', array(
'label'=>'Close',
'url'=>'#',
'htmlOptions'=>array('data-dismiss'=>'modal'),
)); ?>
</div>
<?php $this->endWidget(); ?>
This is the javascript that loads the form inside the modal:
$("a[data-toggle=modal]").click(function(){
var target = $(this).attr('data-target');
var url = $(this).attr('href');
if(url){
$(target).find(".modal-body").load(url);
}
});
This is the form view:
<div class="form">
<?php $form=$this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', array(
'id'=>'client-ticket-form',
'enableAjaxValidation'=>false,
)); ?>
<p class="note">Fields with <span class="required">*</span> are required. </p>
<?php echo $form->errorSummary($ticket); ?>
<div>
<?php echo $form->labelEx($ticket,'sent_to'); ?>
<?php echo $form->textField($ticket,'sent_to'); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($ticket,'sent_to'); ?>
</div>
<div>
<?php echo $form->labelEx($ticket,'courier'); ?>
<?php echo $form->textField($ticket,'courier'); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($ticket,'courier'); ?>
</div>
<div>
<?php echo $form->labelEx($ticket,'awb'); ?>
<?php echo $form->textField($ticket,'awb'); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($ticket,'awb'); ?>
</div>
<div>
<?php echo $form->labelEx($ticket,'awb_date'); ?>
<?php echo $form->textField($ticket,'awb_date'); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($ticket,'awb_date'); ?>
</div>
<div class="buttons">
<?php echo CHtml::submitButton($ticket->isNewRecord ? 'Create' : 'Save'); ?>
</div>
<?php $this->endWidget(); ?>
</div><!-- form -->
Any help is very appreciated. If you require more information, please ask.

Answer 1

Change code at model-footer as below:
<div class="modal-footer">
<?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbButton', array(
'type'=>'primary',
'label'=>'Save changes',
'url'=>'#',
'htmlOptions'=>array('onclick' => '$("#formID").submit()'),
)); ?>
<?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbButton', array(
'label'=>'Close',
'url'=>'#',
'htmlOptions'=>array('data-dismiss'=>'modal'),
)); ?>

Answer 2

This first response didn't resolve my problem of a modal form closing on submit. For anyone else that is having issues, I had to enable client Validation in the CActiveForm.
It ended up looking like this:
$form = $this->beginWidget(
'CActiveForm',
array(
'id' => 'feature-form',
'enableAjaxValidation' => true,
'enableClientValidation' => true,
'clientOptions' => array(
'validateOnSubmit' => true,
'validateOnChange' => true,
'validateOnType' => true
)
)
);
Hopefully this helps some coming after me.

Answer 3

just trigger the click event on the other one that you don't want to show, an also hide it first!