I am having a Bootstrap dropdown in my HTML which when clicked should list values from postgres database through AJAX request
<div class="dropdown">
<button class="btn btn-primary dropdown-toggle" type="button" data-toggle="dropdown">Region/Country
<span class="caret"></span>
</button>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li>
<a href="#"></a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
This is my PHP service code which gets called by AJAX when the dropdown is clicked:
$result = pg_query($dbh, "SELECT country from countries");
if (!$result) {
echo "An error occurred.
";
exit;
}
$features = array();
while ($row = pg_fetch_array($result)) {
$features[] = array("country" => array($row[0]));
}
$result_feature = $features;
echo json_encode($result_feature);
I had tried something like below
$(".dropdown-toggle").dropdown({
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax({
url: 'KFRI_Service.php',
dataType: 'json',//since you wait for json
data: {
'service': 'dropdown'
},
success: function(json){
//now when you received json, render options
$.each(json, function(i, option){
var rendered_option = '<li><a href="#">'+ option.country +'</a></li>';
$(rendered_option).appendTo('.dropdown-menu');
})
}
})
}
})
Something like this:
$.ajax({
url: 'url',
dataType: 'json', //since you wait for json
success: function(json) {
//now when you received json, render options
$.each(json, function(i, option) {
var rendered_option = '<li><a href="#">' + option.country + '</a></li>';
$(rendered_option).appendTo('.dropdown-menu');
})
}
})
And by the way - since frontend is waiting for JSON, you don't always echo your text, for example you need to write an error message:
if (!$result) {
echo "An error occurred.
";
exit;
}
That's bad - because on client side JQuery will try to parse JSON response and will silently fail in case of error.
Should be done like this:
if (!$result) {
echo json_encode(['error' => 'An error occurred.']);
exit;
}
Now it can easily be checked on client side:
success: function(json){
if (json.error) {
alert(json.error);
} else {
// do your stuff
}
}
You can make a function to get the PHP data as JSON using AJAX like this:
function getJSON(callback){
return $.ajax({
url: your_php_script_url, //the url of the PHP script where your echo your JSON
dataType:'json',
type: 'POST',
success: callback
});
}
And then call your getJSON function like this:
getJSON(function(data){
// where data is your data from PHP
});
And from here on you just simply need to create a dropdown and list the items in it using a for in
loop for example.