jquery: passing parameter to modal - php

Question

I have the following in a table, repeated for each row:
<a <?php echo 'id="'.$id.'"'; ?> class="custom-dialog-btn btn btn-small">
<i class="icon-trash"></i>
</a>
where id is different for each line, because it is taken from a table in database where it is the primary key.
Then, I used th following jQuery code:
$(".custom-dialog-btn").bind("click", function (event) {
$("#mws-jui-dialog").dialog("option", {
modal: false
}).dialog("open");
event.preventDefault();
});
$("#mws-jui-dialog").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
title: "Alert",
modal: true,
width: "640",
buttons: [{
text: "NO",
id: "cancel_button",
click: function () {
$(this).dialog("close");
}
},
{
text: "OK",
id: "confirm_button",
click: function () {
myremovefuntion(id); // I need the id
}}
]
});
that refers to the dialog:
<div id="mws-jui-dialog">
<div class="mws-dialog-inner">
<h2>Are you sure you want to delete?</h2>
</div>
</div>
How can I pass the id to the modal?

Answer 1

You can append a data attribute to your dialog div as follows;
$('a').click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$("#your_dialog").data('mycustomdata', $(this).prop('id')).dialog('open');
});
And retreive it like this
$("#your_dialog").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
resizable: false,
height:200,
modal: true,
buttons: {
Cancel: function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
},
'Delete': function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
var mydata = $(this).data('mycustomdata'); // = gives you the id of anchor element
// some delete logic
}
}
});

Answer 2

While Emin's answer certainly works, I wonder if this fabuolus jQuery UI library perhaps has a dialogue flavour analogue to JavaScript's native confirm() method? Or perhaps a possibility to pass in callback functions? This would remove the need from the dialogue code containing business logic.

Answer 3

Use the following code to get the id:
var id = $(this).prop("id");
And you will get the id of that which element you have clicked.