I have a modal that I open and it contains a form for creating a new post for a blog. Nothing difficult at all. When I click create, a controller action is called, the post is then created and so on and so forth.
This is all awesome.
But now what I want to do is when I click the "edit" I want the same modal to open, but I want the inside form populated with said post. Is there away on the modal trigger to call a controller action , open the modal and then do I want from there?
What I have so far for opening the modal is:
<a href="#" class="btn btn-create" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#createNewPost">Create Post</a>
// Which calls:
<div class="modal fade" id="createNewPost" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="createNewPost">
<div class="modal-dialog" role="document">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">×</span></button>
<h4 class="modal-title" id="createNewBlog">Create a new post</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
@include('blog.posts.create')
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
// Note the include (from above):
{{ Form::open(array('url' => 'create-new-post', 'class' => 'form-horizontal')) }}
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('title', 'Post Title', array('class' => 'col-sm-2 control-label')) }}
<div class="col-sm-10">
{{ Form::text('title', '', array('placeholder' => 'sample title', 'class' => 'form-control')) }}
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('content', 'Post Content', array('class' => 'col-sm-2 control-label')) }}
<div class="col-sm-10">
{{ Form::textarea('content', '', array('placeholder' => 'some content', 'class' => 'form-control')) }}
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('tags', 'Post Tags', array('class' => 'col-sm-2 control-label')) }}
<div class="col-sm-10">
{{ Form::text('tags', '', array('class' => 'form-control', 'data-role' => 'tagsinput')) }}
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('categories', 'Post Categories', array('class' => 'col-sm-2 control-label')) }}
<div class="col-sm-10">
{{ Form::text('categories', '', array('class' => 'form-control', 'data-role' => 'tagsinput')) }}
</div>
</div>
{{ Form::hidden('blogId', $blog->id) }}
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-10">
{{ Form::submit('Create', array('class' => 'btn btn-primary')) }}
</div>
</div>
{{ Form::close() }}
So this works really well for creating a blog. Now I want to do the same thing but this time I want to call a controller action to then return something so I can use it in the modal view and populate said form with it.
Ideas?