Question

I am trying to display contact information and allow edit in place. It is not updating the field. Basically, the div I want to use has (e.g.) an address, I click on it, it highlight and then an edit box appears, I edit, click ok, and the thing updates as success. Yet the data has not updated, which I can tell when I check the record.

Here are snippets of relevant code:

---

CONTROLLER:

var $helpers = array ('Html','Form','Ajax','Javascript','Menu');
var $components = array( 'RequestHandler');
var $name = 'People';

…

function edit_in_place() {
 if (!empty($this->data)) {
  if ($this->Person->save($this->data)) {
    $thisId=$this->Person->id;
    $this->header("Content-Type: application/json");
    echo 'success';
    exit;
  } else {
    return 'Fail';
  }
 }
 $this->Autorender = FALSE;
 exit;
}

VIEW THAT TRIGGERS EDIT_IN_PLACE:

<div id="addresswork">
 <?php echo $person['Person']['addresswork'] ?>
</div>

<?php
 echo $ajax->editor(
   "addresswork", array( 
      'controller'=>'People',
      'action'=>'edit_in_place',
       $person['Person']['id'] 
 ),
    array('highlightcolor'=>'#aaeeff')
 )
?>

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I have tried finding good documentation on this and failed. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I got it working — the problem was I wasn’t getting data into the function in the controller as I expected. So I did a print_r to figure out what params were coming back. Here’s what I did, although I’d be interested in any more comments on the correct way to do it:

function edit_in_place() {

    if ($this->RequestHandler->isAjax())
    {
        $this->Person->id = $this->params['named']['id'];
        $field= $this->params['form']['editorId'];
        $value= $this->params['form']['value'];

        $this->Person->saveField($field,$value);

        Configure::write('debug', 0);
        echo $value;
        exit;
    }

In the view that triggers this, I did this:

        <div id="addresswork">
        <?php echo $person['Person']['addresswork'] ?>
        </div>
        <?php
        echo $ajax->editor(
        "addresswork",
        array( 
            'controller'=>'People',
            'action'=>'edit_in_place',
            'id'=>$person['Person']['id']
            ),
        array(
            'submit'=>'OK',
            'style'=>'inherit',
            'submitdata' =>array('id'=>$person['Person']['id']),
            'tooltip'=>'Click this to edit',
            'highlightcolor'=>'#aaeeff')
        );
        ?>