View - Controller Issue in CFWheels

Question

I am using CFwheels for a site that I am creating and need to use a nested view. However, when I submit the form on the popup view, the component doesn't seem to work.

Below is some test code that I am using (when I use the view in the popup as an individual page everything works fine).

Is there a specific method to make something like this happen or is something like this unsupported in CFWheels?

global.cfm - Parent View

  <a href="##createClient" role="button" class="btn btn-success" data-toggle="modal">Add New Client</a>            



 <div id="createClient" class="modal hide fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
            <cfinclude template="createClient.cfm">
 </div>

createClient.cfm - nested view (popup)

<form method="post" action="createClient">
<input type="hidden" name="isPost" value="1" />


        <table>
        <div class="modal-body">
            <tr>
                <td>Client Brand Name:</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="ClientBrandName" value="" required></td>
            </tr>

            <tr>
                <td>Survey Referral:</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="surveyReference" value="" required/></td>
            </tr>

Controller of nested view

<cffunction name="createClient">        
    <cfif isDefined('form.isPost')>
        <cfscript>
         application.someComponent.someFunction(
            CBname = params.clientbrandname,
            sRef= params.sreferralid,
            sRefname = params.surveyreference
         );
        </cfscript>
    </cfif>
</cffunction>

Answer 1

I'm not directly answering your question, but you're not approaching this in a very 'wheels-y' way.

firstly, all cfwheels form + url params are pushed into the params scope, so generally, we'd be doing structkeyexists(params, "isPost") (or some such) for a start. (that's not to say that the form scope is inaccessible though).

secondly, you might find includePartial() more useful than cfinclude, as you can pass named arguments through.

Ajax/Modal calls are supported in wheels, but I'd wager you're accidentally submitting to the wrong URL; you'd need to strip the layout too.

Have a look at https://github.com/neokoenig/RoomBooking - there's several examples of bootstrap modal windows which may help.