<title>jQuery UI Dialog - Modal form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" />
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/resources/demos/style.css" />
body { font-size: 62.5%; }
label, input { display:block; }
input.text { margin-bottom:12px; width:95%; padding: .4em; }
fieldset { padding:0; border:0; margin-top:25px; }
h1 { font-size: 1.2em; margin: .6em 0; }
div#users-contain { width: 350px; margin: 20px 0; }
div#users-contain table { margin: 1em 0; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; }
div#users-contain table td, div#users-contain table th { border: 1px solid #eee; padding: .6em 10px; text-align: left; }
.ui-dialog .ui-state-error { padding: .3em; }
.validateTips { border: 1px solid transparent; padding: 0.3em; }
password = $( "#password" ),
allFields = $( [] ).add( name ).add( email ).add( password ),
tips = $( ".validateTips" );
function updateTips( t ) {
.addClass( "ui-state-highlight" );
tips.removeClass( "ui-state-highlight", 1500 );
function checkLength( o, n, min, max ) {
if ( o.val().length > max || o.val().length < min ) {
o.addClass( "ui-state-error" );
updateTips( "Length of " + n + " must be between " +
min + " and " + max + "." );
function checkRegexp( o, regexp, n ) {
if ( !( regexp.test( o.val() ) ) ) {
o.addClass( "ui-state-error" );
$( "#dialog-form" ).dialog({
"Create an account": function() {
allFields.removeClass( "ui-state-error" );
bValid = bValid && checkLength( name, "username", 3, 16 );
bValid = bValid && checkLength( email, "email", 6, 80 );
bValid = bValid && checkLength( password, "password", 5, 16 );
bValid = bValid && checkRegexp( name, /^[a-z]([0-9a-z_])+$/i, "Username may consist of a-z, 0-9, underscores, begin with a letter." );
bValid = bValid && checkRegexp( email, /^((([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+(\.([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+)*)|((\x22)((((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(([\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f]|\x21|[\x23-\x5b]|[\x5d-\x7e]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(\\([\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0d-\x7f]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF]))))*(((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(\x22)))@((([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.)+(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.?$/i, "eg. ui@jquery.com" );
bValid = bValid && checkRegexp( password, /^([0-9a-zA-Z])+$/, "Password field only allow : a-z 0-9" );
$( "#users tbody" ).append( "<tr>" +
"<td>" + name.val() + "</td>" +
"<td>" + email.val() + "</td>" +
"<td>" + password.val() + "</td>" +
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
allFields.val( "" ).removeClass( "ui-state-error" );
$( "#dialog-form" ).dialog( "open" );
<div id="dialog-form" title="Create new user">
<p class="validateTips">All form fields are required.</p>
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
<label for="password">Password</label>
<input type="password" name="password" id="password" value="" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
<div id="users-contain" class="ui-widget">
<table id="users" class="ui-widget ui-widget-content">
<tr class="ui-widget-header ">
<button id="create-user">Create new user</button>
</html>
this one opens a modal form which has textboxes but it only updates whats in the form.
Now Can anyone help me how to make the modal form submit its content straight to SQL.
Please help, Newbie here, I need all the help I can get