Hi Jacob, the format in your 'input' is a Ruby on Rails microformat; the
"name='branch[blahblah]'" is a ruby hash. The problem could be how it is
being parsed on the server with your ruby code.
Here is short article about the use of microformats in rails.
http://wonderfullyflawed.com/2009/02/17/rails-forms-microformat/
Hope it helps.
DED
2009/10/23 jacob <ygpa...@gmail.com>
>
> > Can you rename the control?
> No I can't. Because the control's name is automatically assigned in
> the rails framework.
>
> If I rename the control's name, it will be caused another problem I
> can't properly manage the value. But I can see the value in the server
> side, when I make another test controller named "<input
> name="test_name" type="text" /> instead of "name=branch[blalbla]"
>
> I guess the server side procedure will be like this
> ex) php ( even though the ruby syntax will be different, the way of
> process will be same in terms of context. )
> foreach (branch as $key => $value) {
> // make query according to key and value pairs
> // but when I meet key name "address", I get the null value.
> }
>
> Furthermore, I can get the whole value exactly as I typed in the web
> page except the values that I set by jQuery's 'val' method.
>
> On 10월24일, 오전6시31분, DanDan <dan.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I *think* you are probably right that the name of the input control is
> > your problem:
> >
> > name="branch[address]"
> >
> > I wonder if your server side code is seeing the brackets escaped or
> > unescaped.
> >
> > Can you rename the control?
> >
> > On Oct 23, 9:22 am, jacob <ygpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > hello?
> >
> > > Today, I have met something odd experience during developing web
> > > application based on Ruby on Rails and Jquery.
> >
> > > When I set some value by next code,
> > > jQuery('#branch_address').val(address_val);
> > > it seems to work as I expected. Because the value that I set by
> > > jQuery's 'val' function appear on the chrome browser and other
> > > browsers as well.
> >
> > > <input type="text" name="branch[address]" id="branch_address" />
> >
> > > But when I submit the form, I got the null value from the perspective
> > > of server side.
> >
> > > I suspect this problem could be caused by the hash array like 'brach
> > > [address]' but I can't verify the reason due to lack of my knowledge
> > > about jQuery and javascript.
> >
> > > I expect anyone who have more experience to the jQuery and javascript
> > > than me give some tip or any guide to me to overcome this obstacle.
> >
> > > looking forward for many knowledgeable people to consider this
> > > problem.
> >
> > > Thanks a lot.
>
