In the following code, I am adding a customer to a table based on information from the form.
I found that the ng-submit will not send the form variables to addCustomer() unless the input element has both ng-model and name and they both have the same name, although I couldn't find this documented anywhere.
Why is this the case? And since this seems to be redundant, and I passing the variables correctly?
<html ng-app="mainModule">
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.26/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body ng-controller="mainController" style="padding: 20px 0">
<div class="col-lg-12">
<div class="panel panel-success" style="width: 500px">
<div class="panel-heading">Add Customer</div>
<div class="panel-body">
<form ng-submit="addCustomer()" role="form">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="firstName">First Name:</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="firstName" name="firstName"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="lastName">Last Name:</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="lastName" name="lastName"/>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Add</button>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div class="panel panel-info" style="width: 500px">
<div class="panel-heading">Customers</div>
<table class="table-striped table-bordered table table-hover">
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
</tr>
<tr ng-repeat="customer in customers">
<td>{{customer.id}}</td>
<td>{{customer.firstName}}</td>
<td>{{customer.lastName}}</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<script>
var mainModule = angular.module('mainModule', []);
function mainController($scope) {
$scope.idCount = 1;
$scope.customers = [];
$scope.addCustomer = function () {
$scope.customers.push({id: $scope.idCount++, firstName: this.firstName, lastName: this.lastName});
};
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Normally you would create a customer object, and then bind ngModel to its properties.
In your ngController, initialize your newCustomer:
var mainModule = angular.module('mainModule', []);
mainModule.controller('mainController', function ($scope) {
$scope.idCount = 1;
$scope.customers = [];
$scope.newCustomer = { id: $scope.idCount, firstName:'', lastName:''};
$scope.addCustomer = function (customer) {
$scope.customers.push(customer);
$scope.newCustomer = { id:++$scope.idCount, firstName:'', lastName:''};
};
}
In your HTML, bind ngModel to the customer's first name and last name poperties - unless you need to do form validation, the name attribute is not necessary.
<form ng-submit="addCustomer(newCustomer)" role="form">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="firstName">First Name:</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="newCustomer.firstName" />
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="lastName">Last Name:</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="newCustomer.lastName"/>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Add</button>
</form>