Question

I have this ajax call at the moment:

$.ajax({
    url: "misc/sendPM.php",
    type: "POST",
    data: data,

    success: function(stuff) {

        if (typeof stuff == "object") {
            var err = confirm(stuff.error);
            if (err) {
                alert('You pressed OK'); // MAKE AJAX CALL HERE HERE HERE HERE
            } else {
                $("#pmResponse").text("Mottagare saknas!").show().fadeOut(4500);
                $('#sendPM_btn').attr('disabled', false);
                $('#txt').attr('readonly', false);
                $('#title').attr('readonly', false);
            }
        } else {

            $(stuff).prependTo('#PrivateMessages').fadeIn(1000);
            $('#txt').val("");

            $("#pmResponse").text("Skickat!").show().fadeOut(4500);
            $('#sendPM_btn').attr('disabled', false);
            $('#txt').attr('readonly', false);
            $('#title').attr('readonly', false);
        }
    }
});

I am making an “Did you mean?” If the user hasn’t typed in right name for the recipient. The “did you mean name” comes in a confirm, so you could press OK or Cancel -> to type again a new name.

If you press ok right now, you only get a alert (see above code). But what I want to do when you press OK is make a change in ‘recipient’ data name, and send back the same data. Is this possible? How?

So conclusion what I am doing now is:

Sending request to sendPM.php with
data, sendPM.php grabs the data and if
it finds the recipient name is
unclear(eg. Megan F) then it returns
JSON “error” with: Did you mean Megan
Fox?, the $.ajax on success grabs it,
and make it as a confirm box. If you
press OK on the confirm box(if you did
mean megan fox), then it should send
back “Megan Fox” to sendPM.php along
with all the previous data,
In order to complete the process fully.

Is there a better way to do this?

If no, how can I then send back “megan fox” to sendPM.php along with the previous data in order to complete the process fully?

Answer 1

Make them into functions instead.

function sendRequest(data) {
    $.ajax({
        ...
        data: data
        success: process
    });
}

function process(stuff) {
    ...
    if(err && confirm("Did you mean " + stuff.suggestion + "?")) {
        sendRequest([make your new data here]);
    }
    ...        
}