Form not submitting inside $.ajax success function

Question

I\'m validating for duplicate names by using jquery+Ajax. Everything is working fine except that the form is not submitting once everything returns true

What

Answer 1

I would check it with jQuery validator at run time, not on submit but another approach is to make a Rest Style call. I think it's not necessary to POST a full form just to check 1 field.

$('#form1').submit(function(){
    //Check not empty
    if(!$('#shelf_name').val()) {
       alert('Shelf name is required');
       $('#shelf_name').focus();
    } else {   
       //Valiate Rest style call             
       $.getJSON("check-duplicate-shelf-name.php/".concat($('#shelf_name').val()), function(data) {
           //If you only have 2 states I would return boolean to faster check ex: if(!data){
           if(data == 'stop') {
               // working if duplicate name is found
               alert('Shelf name already exists'); 
           } else {   
               alert('else working?'); // alert box is showing up if name is not duplicate                                         
               $('#form1').submit(); // but after alert, this line not executing
           }
       });
    }
    return false;
});​

When I said on comments that you can post your form manually not using $(this).submit(); I refer to:

$.ajax({
       url: "./myurl",
       cache: false,
       type: "POST",           
       data: $("#form1").serialize(),
       success:  function(){
               console.log("Submit successful");
   }
});