I am new to jQuery so please don't judge me too harshly!
I'm making a page which lists videos, under each video there is a voting button. The button works in 2 stages, first you click it which expands the button, then the second click should confirm the vote using PHP/Ajax. If you click another button before submitting it should reset the first.
I put together the below to try and accomplish this, the first section is to expand the button, then the second is to submit the vote. It kind of works, but I noticed that if you click on one button, then another, then back to the first it submits the vote. Any ideas of how I can get this working? Or a better way of working?
Thanks in advance!
<script>
$(window).load(function(){
$("ul li .button").click(function() {
$("ul li .button").removeClass("active-button");
$("ul li .button").text("Vote for this");
$(this).addClass("active-button");
$(this).text("Submit vote");
stop;
});
});
$(document).on("click", "ul li .button", function () {
if ( $(this).hasClass( "active-button" ) ) {
$("ul li .active-button").click(function()
{
var id = $(this).attr("id");
var name = $(this).attr("name");
var dataString = 'id='+ id ;
var parent = $(this);
if (name=='up')
{
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "up_vote.php",
data: dataString,
cache: false,
success: function(html)
{
parent.html(html);
}
});
}
});
}
});
</script>
<ul class="videos clearfix">
<?php include('config.php');
$sql=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM messages LIMIT 4");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($sql))
{
$msg=$row['msg'];
$mes_id=$row['mes_id'];
$up=$row['up'];
$title=$row['title'];
?>
<li>
<h2><?php echo $title; ?></h2>
<?php echo $msg; ?>
<div id="<?php echo $mes_id; ?>" name="up" class="button vote">Vote for this</div>
</li>
?php } ?>
</ul>
Dont have two seperate click handlers, combine them into one:
$(document).on("click", "ul li .button", function () {
if ( $(this).hasClass( "active-button" ) ) {
var id = $(this).attr("id");
var name = $(this).attr("name");
var dataString = 'id='+ id ;
var parent = $(this);
if (name=='up')
{
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "up_vote.php",
data: dataString,
cache: false,
success: function(html)
{
parent.html(html);
}
});
}
}else{
$("ul li .button").removeClass("active-button");
$("ul li .button").text("Vote for this");
$(this).addClass("active-button");
$(this).text("Submit vote");
}
});