DNN Form not processing correctly with ASP.NET c#

Question

I've encountered a problem with a Dot Net Nuke customized form. The form has some strange behavior. Well I believe the skin itself in the code is strange. I have the submit button code behind c# to redirect to another page upon firing, using the code "response.redirect()" towards the end of the function. However, it redirects back to itself without any action specified in the page. I realized that when I view the source code, it automatically gives an action to return to itself.

The code in the skin itself follows:

<dnn:Form id="Form" runat="server" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" >

The button code:

<asp:button id="btnClear2" cssclass="dnnSecondaryAction " runat="server" resourcekey="Submit"
  onclick="btnSubmit_Click" />

The form after being processed displays in the browser as:

<form name="Form" method="post" action="/onlineorderform.aspx" onsubmit="javascript:return WebForm_OnSubmit();" id="Form" enctype="multipart/form-data">

I'm not able to change or remove the dnn code without having the site to crash. It seems like the dnn code will override my c# response.redirect code.

Answer 1

You can't have a form inside DNN because the DNN page is a form itself. Check out the editUrl() functions to change where the page posts to. I'm currently trying to get around the problem myself.

To further expand: cmdblah.Click event obviously tied into a button control on the page.

protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnInit(e);
        cmdblah.Click += cmdblah_Click;

}

        private void cmdblah_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string Testing = EditUrl("AddNewClient");
        Response.Redirect(Testing);

        //throw new NotImplementedException();

    }

In my case that redirects do another page on DNN without sending anything, however, I could see sending information through parameters in the url that you add, or some other way.... which if you run across, get back at me. :-) I just haven't gotten that far yet. I'd imagine it would be sending the post data to the new page anyway.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

As the whole page in the site is a form you can not create forms within the page.

My solution to this in the past is has been to call a javascript to change the form action on click of the button/link.

The issue with this is it send the view state and all the dnn specific suff as well as the fields intended.

On my latest project I used a selector class on the form fields to be sent and query to serialise and post the data. worked well in the end.

EDIT:

below is some code that will allow you to serialise part of your form and send it

        $.get('processor URL' , 
        $('.ClassAddedToFieldsYouWantToSend').serialize(), 
        function(data) { alert("do something with the response"; }