ajax form after 'submit' validation errors - php

I have created a form using ajax and php. The initial load and entering values into the form are all working fine, but where I am getting errors, is after the submit button has been pressed. Here is the markup for the form, and the ajax and php handlers:
relevant parts of form:
<form id="edit_time">
<!-----form fields here----!>
<button class="saveRecurrence" type="button" onclick="editTimeDriver('.$_GET['driver_id'].')">Save</button>
ajax part:
function editTimeDriver(driver_id) {
var time = "";
if (driver_id)
{
time += "&driver_id="+driver_id;
}
var data = $("#edit_time").serialize();
$.ajax({
url: "ajax.php?action=save_driver_event"+time,
dataType: "json",
type: "post",
data: data,
beforeSend: function()
{
$(".error, .success, .notice").remove();
},
success: function(json)
{
if (json["status"]=="success")
{
alert(json["message"]);
$("#edit_time")[0].reset();
}else{
if(json["error"]["date_from"]){
$("input[name=date_from]").after("<div class="error">"+json_time["error"]["date_from"]+"</div>");
}
}
}
});
}
This then passes to the php part which is:
$json = array();
if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest') {
$date_from = tep_db_prepare_input($_POST['date_from']);
if (preg_match("/^([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})$/", $date_from)) {
$json['error']['date_from'] = 'Start Date is not valid!';
}
if (isset($json['error']) and !empty($json['error'])){
$json['status'] = 'error';
$json['message'] = 'Please check your error(s)!';
}else{
$json['status'] = 'success';
$json['message'] = 'Time Data has been successfully updated!';
}
}
echo json_encode($json);
Now for some reason, if the date_from field is left blank, and the form submitted, it doesn't come back with error message, instead it returns the success message. Can anyone tell me why it is not reading the errors?

Change your code by this one
onclick="editTimeDriver('<php echo $_GET['driver_id'] ?>'); return false;"
The return false statement prevent the form to be submitted using http (as you want to send an ajax request)
And You where doing something weird with your $_GET['driver_id']
Don't forget that php is running server-side

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php - codeigniter ajax form validation

Hi I’m quite new to jquery -ajax and I’d like some help please to join it with CI.
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Wrong. The code in "success" gets executed any time you get a response back from the server (assuming the HTTP header is 200). Does your javascript knows if the server has any error for you? No.
You need your JavaScript to recognize if the validation failed or succeeded. You have many ways to do that. One of these could be sending the message to display followed by a 0 or 1.
So your PHP will looks like:
return "0 " . $errorMessage;
and
return "1 " . $successMessage;
and your javascript should then recognize, with if statement and substring, if the message starts with 0 or with 1.
Use this way i hope this will work for you
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