Author Topic: Add Ajax Event on postal code field (Read 4276 times)

matast · September 23, 2009, 08:26:50 am

Hi !

I have a little problem in the "add contact form". I'd like to catch the onkeyup event on the postal code field to fill in the city field using Ajax. I saw in sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contact/Form/Address.php that I can add an attribute on the postal code field, but do u know how I can use a civicrm ajax framework to fill in my target field ? I imagine I have to use JQuery...

Thanks a lot for your help !

Donald Lobo · September 23, 2009, 08:43:22 am

yes, you will have to use jQuery

You will also need another table that gives you a zipcode -> city name value. check the sql/zipcodes.mysql file in the distribution

while u r at this, you might also want to populate the state and the country for that address

Please publish your code when done

thanx

lobo

matast · September 23, 2009, 01:52:02 pm

Thanks,

Ok for jQuery, I usually use ExtJS but I will learn jQuery, that's not a real problem. But I don't know how to use it in CiviCrm. I just know that I can add a key/value pair in the $attributes like 'onkeyup' => 'javascript:myfunction();' but where do I create my customize function ? Do I have to load some jQuery components ? In this case where ? Is there a civicrm method to use ?

Thanks a lot.

Donald Lobo · September 23, 2009, 02:45:10 pm

1. check: http://jqueryhelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=832&sid=7d0931ab91b60e91b40e34b1300dd7f2

2. customize the templates and add your custom javascript there or in another include file

3. we dont have a zipcode -> city/state/country map, so you'll need to write custom php to handle this and expose it via a url (so u can call it from the JS)\

lobo

matast · September 25, 2009, 09:42:18 am

It ok for jquery (thanks for the link !),
ok for the custom javascript function in my template,
ok for calling a php script that gets informations in database.

But now I've another probleme with this php script called by jquery. It's out of any context and when I want to use some civiCrm functions like CRM_Core_DAO to access database, I get fatal errors.

Do I have to include each class I need or is there a way to include a group of classes or something like that ?

Thanks a lot.

Donald Lobo · September 25, 2009, 10:36:23 am

you will have to initialize CiviCRM and include the specific files you are calling. Check some of the scripts in the bin/ directory to see easy ways of initializing civicrm by an independent url

lobo

LakeGirlMT · March 14, 2016, 06:47:14 am

I apologize for commenting in this old thread, but I was just wondering if this was ever implemented successfully and if the code was posted somewhere. I need to replace a very antiquated CRM and am thinking of using CiviCRM but one of the requested features is to auto-populate the city and state when the zip code is entered.

Thanks for any help in advance.

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