Question

I have a form which is in a sidebar, and shows on multiple pages. If the user is on page-a.php and submits the form, it uses ajax to return some data to a div on that page.

However, if the user is on page-b.php and submits the same form (again, it is included on both pages), I want the form to redirect to page-a.php and then use the same ajax post to load the data. How can I achieve this?

Edit for clarity:

page-a.php – when this submits this form (included from separate file), an ajax call is made to page-c.php, which loads data into the div:

<form method="post" action="page-c.php">
    <input ....
               />
</form>
<div></div>

page-b.php has the exact same form (included from a separate file), but different content, so in order to load the data into the div, we need to redirect to page-a.php:

<form method="post" action="page-c.php">
   <input .....
          />
</form>

So how can I make the form call work the same (ajax that is already implemented), but have it redirect me to page-a.php first?

Answer 1

Solved it using this:

<form name="formA" id="formA"  method="post" 
            <?php if(curPageName() == 'page-a.php'){
                echo 'class="ajax" action="page-c.php"';
                }
                else {
                echo 'action="page-a.php"';
                }
            ?>
        >

with this on page-a.php to auto submit the form on page load, which redirects the load to the ajax submit

<script type="text/javascript">$(document).ready(function() {document.formA.submitbutton.click(); });</script>