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Posted on Sep 21, 2020 • Updated on Dec 25, 2020

How to create modal in Laravel 8 and Laravel 6/7 with AJax

#laravel #modal #ajax #jquery

Hello, today we are going to add a little feature to our CRUD app
laravel 8 CRUD, which is using bootstrap Modal to create, edit and view our projects, this can be extended to anything you want to do in Laravel 6/7/8 that requires displaying in a modal.
Modal helps us to work on another page without moving out of the current page, which helps not to lose sight of where we are. We are going to be using Bootstrap, Jquery, and Ajax to achieve this. Jquery and Ajax will send the URL with the id of the item we want to edit or view into the modal dynamically.
As it is always my culture, I will simplify this article to the level of any developer with screenshots and the code snippets, you can visit the GIthub repo if you just need the code or you made a mistake in following the article.

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Like I said earlier, anything that requires performing an action on another page and coming back can be achieved with a modal without navigating to different pages. All you need is to copy the code in the script tag and change the id of the button to be click and also the id of the modal to be display.
I will be displaying two sizes of the modal, one for small modal and the other for a medium modal, bootstrap has different sizes, small (modal-sm), medium (default), large (modal-lg).

Step 1: Setup the app

git clone https://github.com/Kingsconsult/laravel_8_crud.git
cd laravel_8_crud/
composer install
npm install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
Add your database config in the .env file (you can check my articles on how to achieve that)
php artisan migrate
php artisan serve (if the server opens up, http://127.0.0.1:8000, then we are good to go)
Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/projects
Click on the Green button at the top-right to create some projects

Step 2: Add the bootstrap, jquery, ajax script tag

In the head section of the app.blade.php in resources/views/layouts/ directory, add the following scripts below

<title>App Name - @yield('title')</title>

<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">

<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" id="bootstrap-css">
<!-- Script -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src='https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

<!-- Font Awesome JS -->
<script defer src="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.13/js/solid.js" integrity="sha384-tzzSw1/Vo+0N5UhStP3bvwWPq+uvzCMfrN1fEFe+xBmv1C/AtVX5K0uZtmcHitFZ" crossorigin="anonymous"> </script>
<script defer src="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.13/js/fontawesome.js" integrity="sha384-6OIrr52G08NpOFSZdxxz1xdNSndlD4vdcf/q2myIUVO0VsqaGHJsB0RaBE01VTOY" crossorigin="anonymous"> </script>

<link href='https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

<style>
    .footer {
        position: fixed;
        left: 0;
        bottom: 0;
        width: 100%;
        background-color: #9C27B0;
        color: white;
        text-align: center;
    }
    body {
        background-color: #EDF7EF
    }

</style>

Step 3: edit the index.blade.php

Go to the index.blade.php in resources/views/projects/ directory, copy, and paste the code below.

index.blade.php

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')

    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-12 margin-tb">
            <div class="pull-left">
                <h2>Laravel 8 CRUD </h2>
            </div>
            <div class="pull-right">
                <a class="btn btn-success text-light" data-toggle="modal" id="mediumButton" data-target="#mediumModal"
                    data-attr="{{ route('projects.create') }}" title="Create a project"> <i class="fas fa-plus-circle"></i>
                </a>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    @if ($message = Session::get('success'))
        <div class="alert alert-success">
            <p>{{ $message }}</p>
        </div>
    @endif

    <table class="table table-bordered table-responsive-lg table-hover">
        <thead class="thead-dark">
            <tr>
                <th scope="col">No</th>
                <th scope="col">Name</th>
                <th scope="col" width="30%">Introduction</th>
                <th scope="col">Location</th>
                <th scope="col">Cost</th>
                <th scope="col">Date Created</th>
                <th scope="col">Action</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            @foreach ($projects as $project)
                <tr>
                    <td scope="row">{{ ++$i }}</td>
                    <td>{{ $project->name }}</td>
                    <td>{{ $project->introduction }}</td>
                    <td>{{ $project->location }}</td>
                    <td>{{ $project->cost }}</td>
                    <td>{{ date_format($project->created_at, 'jS M Y') }}</td>
                    <td>
                        <form action="{{ route('projects.destroy', $project->id) }}" method="POST">

                            <a data-toggle="modal" id="smallButton" data-target="#smallModal"
                                data-attr="{{ route('projects.show', $project->id) }}" title="show">
                                <i class="fas fa-eye text-success  fa-lg"></i>
                            </a>

                            <a class="text-secondary" data-toggle="modal" id="mediumButton" data-target="#mediumModal"
                                data-attr="{{ route('projects.edit', $project->id) }}">
                                <i class="fas fa-edit text-gray-300"></i>
                            </a>
                            @csrf
                            @method('DELETE')

                            <button type="submit" title="delete" style="border: none; background-color:transparent;">
                                <i class="fas fa-trash fa-lg text-danger"></i>
                            </button>
                        </form>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            @endforeach
        </tbody>
    </table>

    {!! $projects->links() !!}


    <!-- small modal -->
    <div class="modal fade" id="smallModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="smallModalLabel"
        aria-hidden="true">
        <div class="modal-dialog modal-sm" 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">&times;</span>
                    </button>
                </div>
                <div class="modal-body" id="smallBody">
                    <div>
                        <!-- the result to be displayed apply here -->
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>


    <!-- medium modal -->
    <div class="modal fade" id="mediumModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="mediumModalLabel"
        aria-hidden="true">
        <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">&times;</span>
                    </button>
                </div>
                <div class="modal-body" id="mediumBody">
                    <div>
                        <!-- the result to be displayed apply here -->
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>


    <script>
        // display a modal (small modal)
        $(document).on('click', '#smallButton', function(event) {
            event.preventDefault();
            let href = $(this).attr('data-attr');
            $.ajax({
                url: href,
                beforeSend: function() {
                    $('#loader').show();
                },
                // return the result
                success: function(result) {
                    $('#smallModal').modal("show");
                    $('#smallBody').html(result).show();
                },
                complete: function() {
                    $('#loader').hide();
                },
                error: function(jqXHR, testStatus, error) {
                    console.log(error);
                    alert("Page " + href + " cannot open. Error:" + error);
                    $('#loader').hide();
                },
                timeout: 8000
            })
        });

        // display a modal (medium modal)
        $(document).on('click', '#mediumButton', function(event) {
            event.preventDefault();
            let href = $(this).attr('data-attr');
            $.ajax({
                url: href,
                beforeSend: function() {
                    $('#loader').show();
                },
                // return the result
                success: function(result) {
                    $('#mediumModal').modal("show");
                    $('#mediumBody').html(result).show();
                },
                complete: function() {
                    $('#loader').hide();
                },
                error: function(jqXHR, testStatus, error) {
                    console.log(error);
                    alert("Page " + href + " cannot open. Error:" + error);
                    $('#loader').hide();
                },
                timeout: 8000
            })
        });

    </script>
@endsection

From our code above, in the anchor tag to create a project, we remove the href=” ” and replace it with data-attr=” “, we also added data-toggle=” “, id=” “ and data-target=” “.
We created two div below our table with a class of “modal fade”, these div displays different sizes of modal with the heading specified and contents of the modal. Inside the modal div, there is a div with class modal-dialog, this is where we can change the size of the modal.
Lastly, we added a script tag that contains jquery, ajax logic in displaying the modal.
What we did in the script tag

On click of the button in the anchor tag, it should grab the URL found in the anchor tag
If the URL is valid and on success, it will grab the id of the target modal and pass the contents of the URL to the body of the modal
If there is an error with the URL, it will alert the user with the error message that the URL cannot be open

Step 4: edit the create, edit, show pages

Go to the create.blade.php, edit.blade.php and show.blade.php in resources/views/projects/ directory, and remove the extension of the base layouts,

@extends(‘layouts.app’)
@section(‘content’)
@endsection

That is all, we are good to go

clicking Create button
clicking the show button
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Top comments (6)

Faeza Mohammed • Dec 8 '20

How to make the validation work inside your modal?

Kingsconsult • Dec 8 '20

which kind of validation are you talking about?

Faeza Mohammed • Dec 8 '20 • Edited

Laravel validator is not working inside the modal.
how to make it work? while inputting blank values it will just refresh the page after submit button.
blade



@if ($errors->any())
<div class="alert alert-danger">
    <strong>Whoops!</strong> There were some problems with your input.<br><br>
    <ul>
        @foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
        <li>{{ $error }}</li>
        @endforeach
    </ul>
</div>
@endif

controller

 $request->validate([
            'name' => 'required',
            'introduction' => 'required',
            'location' => 'required',
            'cost' => 'required'
        ]);
        $project->update($request->all());

        return redirect()->route('projects.index')
            ->with('success', 'Project updated successfully');
    }

Faeza Mohammed • Dec 8 '20 • Edited

Look when I erase the input values and submit the form again it won't show the error messages for laravel validator

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Christophe Bossens • Mar 21 '21

Probably a bit late, but if it doesn't help you it might still be useful for other people. I think you are mixing two approaches:

First, you can submit a form by sending a POST request to the server, and the server will then redirect you to a new page. In that case you can use the $errors directive to catch anything that went wrong during validation.

When using a modal, you submit your data using AJAX. This means you basically never leave the page you are on. The server will still return a response, but you have to process this in your JavaScript (specifically, in the AJAX error callback function).

You can find more info here: stackoverflow.com/questions/493337...

joseantoniobsi • Feb 3 '21

Very good! Thanks for the contribution!

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