In web application, submitting form data is very common. So here inside this article we will see Laravel 8 Ajax Post Request. This tutorial is in very easy steps.
Tutorial guides to submit form data using Ajax Post request in Laravel 8. We will create few files like few routes, a view file and some ajax handing methods to controller to complete this basic task.
Also we will implement Client side form validation using jquery validate plugin. Also if you want to implement server side validation, then also we can use Laravel Form validation.
Let’s get started about the Laravel 8 Ajax Post Tutorial.
Laravel Installation
We will create laravel project using composer. So, please make sure your system should have composer installed. If not, may be this article will help you to Install composer in system.
Here is the command to create a laravel project-
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog
To start the development server of Laravel –
php artisan serve
URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000
Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.
Create Application Routes
Open file web.php from /routes folder. Inside this file we will some routes for processing ajax request. One route is GET request type to render layout and second will be POST request to submit form data.
//import controller file
use App\Http\Controllers\AjaxController;
Route::get('add-post', [AjaxController::class, 'myPost']);
Route::post('submit-post', [AjaxController::class, 'submitPost'])->name('postSubmit');
Now, we need to create AjaxController file.
Create Controller File
Open project into terminal and type this command to create Controller file.
$ php artisan make:controller AjaxController
This command will creates a file i.e AjaxController.php at /app/Http/Controllers folder. Open this file and paste the give code.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
// If work with model to save data to database
// Load model here like
// use App\Models\Post;
class AjaxController extends Controller
{
/**
* Create a new controller instance.
*
* @return void
*/
public function myPost()
{
return view('my-post');
}
/**
* Create a new controller instance.
*
* @return void
*/
public function submitPost(Request $request)
{
// We are collecting all data submitting via Ajax
$input = $request->all();
/*
$post = new Post;
$post->name = $input['name'];
$post->description = $input['description'];
$post->status = $input['status'];
$post->save();
*/
// Sending json response to client
return response()->json([
"status" => true,
"data" => $input
]);
}
}Inside this above code, we have added a method which is processing ajax data. Also you can see in the comment section we have used Model concept and saved data into method as well.
Let’s create a blade file to render layout.
Create Blade Template
Go to project’s /resources/views folder, inside this create a file called my-post.blade.php. Open up the file and paste the given code.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Laravel 8 Ajax Post Request Tutorial - Online Web Tutor</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.16.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}" />
<style>
#frm-create-post label.error{
color:red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container" style="margin-top: 50px;">
<h4 style="text-align: center;">Laravel 8 Ajax Post Request Tutorial - Online Web Tutor</h4>
<form action="javascript:void(0)" id="frm-create-post" method="post">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" required id="name" name="name" placeholder="Enter name">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="description">Description:</label>
<textarea class="form-control" id="description" required name="description"
placeholder="Enter description"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="status">Status:</label>
<select class="form-control" id="status" name="status">
<option value="1">Active</option>
<option value="0">Inactive</option>
</select>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" id="submit-post">Submit</button>
</form>
</div>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.2/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$.ajaxSetup({
headers: {
'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
}
});
$("#frm-create-post").validate({
submitHandler: function() {
var name = $("#name").val();
var description = $("#description").val();
var status = $("#status").val();
// processing ajax request
$.ajax({
url: "{{ route('postSubmit') }}",
type: 'POST',
dataType: "json",
data: {
name: name,
description: description,
status: status
},
success: function(data) {
// log response into console
console.log(data);
}
});
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>Application Testing
Run this command into project terminal to start development server,
php artisan serveOpen up the URL – http://localhost:8000/add-post
With Client side validation – jQuery Validate
Submitting Data and getting response to Console
We hope this article helped you to learn about Laravel 8 Ajax Post Request Tutorial in a very detailed way.
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