Yes, that was going to be my fallback if I couldn't get the server validation to work. I just find it so much more maintainable to do the validation in python/django. Anyway, did finally get it working, thanks!
Margie On Sep 15, 5:18 am, justind <justin.don...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you just do validation in the view, then when you get the > response, if there are no errors, submit the form with javascript > (form.submit()), handle it in the view and redirect? > > On Sep 15, 3:07 am, Margie Roginski <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I have a situation where the user fills in a form and hits submit to > > post the form. If my views.py code detects an error in the form, I > > want to return some info to the client and put it into the dom via > > jquery. If there is no error, I want to redirect to another page. > > Can anyone advise me on the best way to do this? I've succesfully > > used $.post() to grab the error info and put it in the dom. However, > > in the case where there is no error, I can't figure out how to do the > > redirect. > > > I've tried having the views.py code pass back the url that I want to > > redirect to, and then when my $.post() callback function is called, it > > sets window.location to that url. But this seems to have some issues > > when the url contains an anchor (for some reason firefox seems to > > cache anchored urls and not redirect to them in the normal way). > > > Is there any way to specify that even though $.post() started the > > server request, that the server should just redirect to a url (ie, > > using just the basic HttpResponseRedirect() or something like that) > > and not return and call the $.post callback function? > > > Thanks for any pointers, > > > Margie > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
