Laravel how to redirect back to boostrap modal dialog window

Question

I want to return to my modal dialog edit form to show validation errors but using Redirect::back I just end up at the HTML page without the modal window.

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Answer 1

I just did something like this. You just need to use blade's templating!

//pass back a variable when redirecting
return Redirect::back()->with('error_code', 5);

And then in your blade template:

@if(!empty(Session::get('error_code')) && Session::get('error_code') == 5)
<script>
$(function() {
    $('#myModal').modal('show');
});
</script>
@endif

This will opens the dialog whenever there is error_code is present and equals to 5!

Answer 2

This worked for me.

In my modal:

<div class="modal-content">
@if (count($errors) > 0)
    <div class="alert alert-danger">
        <strong>Error</strong><br><br>
        <ul>
            @foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
               <li>{{ $error }}</li>
            @endforeach
        </ul>
  </div>
@endif
<div class="modal-body">
.... rest of modal window code

In my view:

<script type="text/javascript">
    @if (count($errors) > 0)
        $('#modal').modal('show');
    @endif
</script>

In my controller I simply redirected back to the view as normal.

Answer 3

Sounds like you need a condition in your view to open the dialog if errors are found in the session:

@if($errors->any())
  $('.btn.edit-attendee').click();
@endif

Answer 4

The only thing I could think of is setting something like this:

`<input type="hidden" name="show" value="{{ Input::old('show') ? Input::old('show'):"" }}" />` 

When the page is loaded by a get request, this value will be set to "", as Input::old('show') isn't set (well is but is set to ""). Then, when you post the form, change the value of this input to:

$("input[name=show"]").val("yes");

So that if/when the page redirects, the value of this hidden input will be set to "yes" instead of "". Then, handle that in Javascript:

$(document).ready(function(){
  if($("input[name=show]").val() != "")){
    $('#modal_id').modal('show');
  }
});

Hope that makes sense!