AngularJS with PHP (forms and ajax) - php

Question

I just started learning AngularJS and will be using PHP for the backend.
I got the basics of Angular working, but now I'm at the point of form submission. Now I'm thinking that I could just do an $.ajax({...}); call to a PHP file and include that function at the bottom of my view.
However, I see there are other ways using controllers, which I'm researching; I just want to know if that would be considered bad practice or if there is a simple way to transition from one method to the other.
Thanks.
EDIT:
Here's what I did now and it's working great in my opinion. Doesn't hurt the integrity of Angular, the form submits, and all is good. Is there a downside to this:
function submitNewPatient(){
$.ajax({
url: 'ajax/patients/new_patient.php',
type: 'post',
data: $("#new_patient_form").serialize(),
success: function()
{
$("#new_patient_form")[0].reset();
}, error: function()
{
alert('something went wrong');
}
});
}

Answer 1

You'll want to look into the $http method.
Here's an example:
$http.post('api/user', {params: {id: '5'}
}).success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// Do something successful.
}).error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// Handle the error
});
Along with .get the $http service has .head, .post, .delete, .put, .jsonp. In your case $http.post, the params and URL in the example above evaluate to api/user?id=5
Also, forms in Angular come with an ng-submit directive which is very useful for calling a function on submission. The ng-submit prevents the browser from its default POST action. This way you can use it to call a function on the controller attached to the view.
<form ng-submit="sendForm()" ng-controller="FormSubmission">
<button>send form!</button>
</form>