Simple form submit with Dojo
I was experimenting with Dojo the other day and to my surprise I did not find a really simple form submit example (using AJAX). What I was looking for was a snippet that took a form id and submitted the form based on that. The endpoint would be the form’s action attribute to make the function reusable on more than one form.
Sitepen has a lot of useful tutorials and they got quite close to what I needed in their Dojo Quick Start Guide. However, their example code seem to be intended to show off Dojo functionality (of course) and used features I did not need.
To the point then. Here is my draft of a form submission using Dojo’s AJAX functionality:
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<script type="text/javascript">
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/**
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* POSTs a form identified by formid using Dojo Ajax
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* The server response is shown in the element identified by msgboxid
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* TODO: A lot, modify to meet your needs
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*
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* @param formid The id of the form to submit
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* @param msgboxid The id of the element to display the response in
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* @return
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*/
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function formSubmit(formid, msgboxid){
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dojo.xhrPost({
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form: formid,
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handleAs: "text",
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handle: function(data,args){
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if(typeof data == "error"){
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console.warn("error!",args);
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}else{
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// show server response in the firebug console
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console.log(data);
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}
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dojo.byId(msgboxid).innerHTML = data;
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}
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});
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};
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</script>
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<div id="fsettingsmsgbox"></div>
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<form method="post" action="settings/update" id="fsettings">
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<input type="text" name="lastname" />
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<input type="button" value="Save settings" onclick="formSubmit('fsettings', 'fsettingsmsgbox');">
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</form>
Easy as it should be 
Yes, there is a lot you could add to this to make it more generic/re-usable/robust but I wanted to keep it as simple as possible so newbies like me can follow.
December 30th, 2009 at 2:16 pm #Mehdi (from bloody Iran)
Thank you, you solved my problem. easy and clear.