I have concatenated list of posts, whereby a user can comment on each one (and the comment gets a live update via jquery). I decided that since I’m using a unique variable for each post, I could just tack that onto the end of the id of the update div, and also tack it onto the end of the class of the submit button, like so:
$my_list .= '
<form action="#" method="post">
<textarea class="commentbox" name="comment" id="comment"></textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="post_id" id="post_id" value=' . $post_id . ' />
<input type="hidden" name="member_id" id="member_id" value=' . $id . ' />
<input type="submit" class="submit' . $post_id . '" value="Comment " />
</form>
' . $comment_list . ' // existing comments queried from the db
<ol id="update' . $post_id . '"></ol> // jquery-ed live update comments
';
?>
Everything with respect to the above looks fine (i.e. each submit button gets a unique class and each update div gets a unique id).
So the problem I’m running into now is: how do I get my js function to recognize each of the unique “submits”? This is what I have now (below). But whenever I click on a submit button next to a post, nothing happens, my page just reloads and a “#” gets added to the end of the url. I checked my live http headers, and it looks like the comment is getting posted along with the correct unique $post_id… but I believe it’s stopping at the js function.
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$(".submit<?php echo $post_id; ?>").click(function() {
var post_id = $("#post_id").val(); // this is the unique id for each story, in a hidden input
var member_id = $("#member_id").val(); // this is a member for the commenter, in a hidden input
var comment = $("#comment").val(); // this is the comment from the input box
var dataString = 'post_id='+ post_id + '&member_id=' + member_id + '&comment=' + comment;
if(comment=='') {
alert('Please enter a valid comment');
} else {
$("#flash").show();
$("#flash").fadeIn(400).html('<span class="loading">Loading Comment...</span>');
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "commentajax.php",
data: dataString,
cache: false,
success: function(html){
$("#update<?php echo $post_id; ?>").append(html);
$("#update<?php echo $post_id; ?> li:last").fadeIn("slow");
document.getElementById('post_id').value='';
document.getElementById('member_id').value='';
document.getElementById('comment').value='';
$("#comment").focus();
$("#flash").hide();
}
});
}
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>