It's not quite clear what your HTML looks like -- are you saying you have
multiple forms (i.e., <form></form>) with the same web2py formname (i.e.,
same value in the hidden _formname field)? Or do you just have multiple
<input> elements with the same names (perhaps in separate forms, or outside
of forms altogether)?
Anyway, I don't think it's documented, but instead of passing an array of
input names as the second argument to ajax(), you can instead pass any
jQuery selector that identifies either an entire form or any set of form
input elements (within a single form or across multiple forms). For
example, if you have:
<div id='mydiv'>
<form id='myform'>
<input name='myinput1' type='text' />
<input name='myinput1' type='text' />
</form>
</div>
you can do:
ajax('/my/url', '#myform', ...) // all input elements in #myform
ajax('/my/url', '#mydiv form', ...) // all input elements in all forms
within #mydiv
ajax('/my/url', '#mydiv input', ...) // all input elements within #mydiv
(whether or not in a form)
ajax('/my/url', '#mydiv [name=myinput1]', ...) // just the myinput1 input
within #mydiv
ajax('/my/url', '#mydiv [name=myinput1], [name=myinput2]', ...) //
multiple specific inputs
ajax('/my/url', '[name=myinput1]', ...) // all inputs on the page with
name 'myinput1'
That last one is equivalent to the usual behavior when you specify just an
array of input names (i.e., ajax(..., ['myinput1'], ...)).
Anthony
On Friday, May 10, 2013 6:27:11 AM UTC-4, Mika Sjöman wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am having a problem because my forms are getting sent with multiple
> values. The issue is that on my page there are multiple places where the
> same formnames are used. So the post vars becomes like this:
>
> Parametersapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
> answer280lesson75lesson75lesson75player_answer
> quiz96quiz96streak7streak7streak7
> Source
>
> player_answer=&answer=280&streak=7&streak=7&streak=7&quiz=96&quiz=96&lesson=75&lesson=75&lesson=75
> The above is created by>
>
> jQuery('#add_quiz_option').submit(function() {
> ajax('{{=URL(c='quiz',f='add_inline_answer')}}',
> ['description', 'is_correct', 'quiz', 'streak',
> 'lesson'], 'quiz_answers');
> return false;
> });
>
> On the server I could do a check if they are lists and then chop them
> down, but that is REALLY messy. Is this a design flaw from my perspective
> or is there a way to solve this better than renaming the vars and them
> renaming them to the matching corresponding database field names when the
> function receives the request.vars?
>
> Starting to get really messy in my code now because I use ajax/jquery
> calls allot. I could rename the form names, but that forces me to rename
> them again after I receive them at the server. Is there a simple way to
> tell jQuery to only use the values from a specific FORM-name so it will not
> send the same value 5 times?
>
> Cheers
>
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