Hey all, I am an absolute Javascript/JQuery noob.  I have however, seen enough tutorials to get the basics on it and have been able to throw together a short script for submitting a form.  Please excuse my code if it's messy, I really don't know javascript (I can read it pretty good though).

Anyways, I have a basic script written to use a bit of ajax on my form.  Note that I am using a PHP MVC app.  I wanted to send the request to a method in my app, but it fails every time I try.  I can however send it to a php script outside of the MVC app (although even if that script always returns false I still get success from JQuery).

Here is my Jquery...

   

    
 $(document).ready(function(){

 // Hide status message by default
 $(".error").hide();
 $("#error").hide();
 $("#success").hide();

 // Create content
 $("#submit").click(function(){ 
 
 // Hide status message by default
 //$("#error").hide();
 //$("#success").hide();
 
 var hasError = false;
 
 // Check that we have a title
 var title = $("#title").val();
 if(title == '') {
 $("#title_error").show();
 hasError = true;
 } 
 // Check that we have a url
 var url = $("#url").val();
 if(url == '') {
 $("#url_error").show();
 hasError = true;
 } 
 // Check that the full story and short story was not left blank
 var short = $('#short').val();
 var full = $('#full').val();
 if(short == '' && full == '') {
 $("#short_error").show();
 $("#full_error").show();
 hasError = true;
 } 
 // Get form data
 var formData = $('#create_form').serialize(); 
 
 // Check that we dont have errors
 if(hasError == false) {
 $(this).hide();
 
 $.ajax({
 type: "POST",
 url: "http://localhost/framework2/public/js/ajax/php/content_create.php",
 data: formData,
 cache: false,
 success: function(){
 $('#success').fadeIn("slow");
 },
 error: function() {
 $('#error').fadeIn("slow");
 }
 });
 }
 else {
 $('#error').fadeIn("slow");
 $(this).show();
 }
 return false;
 }); 
});






























































   
At the moment, my php script simply returns false. I have tried checking for $_POST, $_GET and returning false if none found either. No matter what I do, it is always successful. I would really like to use this within the MVC app itself, that way I can reuse my database instance as well as access my helper files and other libraries. This is a custom framework I am using. 

The page I am trying to send to is like http://www.site.com/content/create_page, where create_page is actually a public method of a class. Thanks for any help anyone here can give me, I would really like to leave Xajax behind in favor of JQuery but I don't think I am getting it right.