Question

I have a problem with the code below. I can’t get it to popup the alert on submit. Well the only way I got it to work was by inserting another alert outside of $.get. (you can see it below). I’ll be more than thankful for any help and guidelines I might get.

$('#addEvent').submit(function() {
    var date = $('#day').val();
    var startTime = $('#startTime').val();

    $.get("/cal/check-For-Existing-Events/time/"+date+"%20"+startTime+":00/room/1234", function(data) { 
        if(data == "Error: date") {
            alert('Error: This date has expired.');
            return false;
        }
        else if(data == "Error: existing") {
            alert('Error: You already have a reservation made on this day.')
            return false;
        }
        else {
            return true;
        }
    });
        alert('test');  //If I remove this part, above errors don't work. WTH!?
});

Answer 1

Thank you all for your suggestions. I tried all of them but none of them seemed to work. That’s why I decided to start from scratch using some of the information I got from previous answers.

Below is the code that works. + I also have to add, that I had to remove the submit button from the form and make another one outside of it for code to work. I Don’t really know why, so if anyone has any information on this.. do tell. 🙂

$("#submit").click(function() {
    var timeStamp = $("#day").val()+" "+$("#startTime").val();
    var room = $room ?>
    $.post("/cal/check-For-Existing-Events/time/"+timeStamp+"/room/"+room, function(data) {
        if(data == "Error: date") {
            $("#errorDisplay").html("Select future date.")
            $("#errorDisplay").show();
            return false;
        } 
        if(data == "Error: exists") {
            $("#errorDisplay").html("You already have a reservation.")
            $("#errorDisplay").show();
            return false;
        }else {
            $("#addEvent").submit();
        }
    });
    return false;
});

I hope that this answer will be helpful to anyone. Cheers! 🙂