Question

I am using this tutorial to create a login form http://www.ryancoughlin.com/2008/11/04/use-jquery-to-submit-form/

It authenticates against w/ our ldap server.

What I am having a problem with is the line

success: function(){
 $('form#submit').hide(function(){$('div.success').fadeIn();});

It runs success even though we don’t even know if the username and password binded successfully.

Is there a way to only run success if the username and password posted was binded successfully?

EDIT:

Added php code of ldap-login.php

<?php

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
require_once('/web/ee_web/include/adLDAP.php');
$adldap = new adLDAP();
if (isset($_POST['username']) && isset($_POST['password'])) {
    $username = $_POST['username'];
    $password = $_POST['password'];  // associated password

    // connect to ldap server
    $authUser = $adldap->authenticate($username, $password);
    if ($authUser === true) {
        $_SESSION['user_session'] = $username;
        if(isset($_SESSION['user_session'])) {
            print "ok";
        }   
    }
    else {
      print "User authentication unsuccessful";
    }
}
?>

Answer 1

If your response comes back having a simple string “ok” or the error message, you can check it this way:

success: function(data){
  if(data === "ok") {
    $('form#submit').hide(function(){$('div.success').fadeIn();
  } else {
    alert(data); // If not "ok", show error message
  }
});

Alternatively, send/check a more complex JSON response.