Updating users

examples/route-separation/app.js

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ var express = require('express')
 app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
 app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
 app.use(express.bodyDecoder());
+app.use(express.methodOverride());
 app.use(express.staticProvider(__dirname + '/public'));
 
 // General
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ app.all('/user/:id/:op?', user.load);
 app.get('/user/:id', user.view);
 app.get('/user/:id/view', user.view);
 app.get('/user/:id/edit', user.edit);
+app.put('/user/:id/edit', user.update);
 
 app.listen(3000);
 console.log('Express app started on port 3000');

examples/route-separation/user.js

@@ -41,4 +41,13 @@ exports.edit = function(req, res){
       , user: req.user
     }
   });
+};
+
+exports.update = function(req, res){
+  // Normally you would handle all kinds of
+  // validation and save back to the db
+  var user = req.body.user;
+  req.user.name = user.name;
+  req.user.email = user.email;
+  res.redirect('back');
 };

examples/route-separation/views/user/edit.ejs

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 <div id="user">
   <h1>Editing <%= user.name %></h1>
   <form method="post">
-    <p>Email: <input type="text" value="<%= user.email %>" name="user[name]"/></p>
+    <input type="hidden" value="put" name="_method" />
+    <p>Name: <input type="text" value="<%= user.name %>" name="user[name]"/></p>
+    <p>Email: <input type="text" value="<%= user.email %>" name="user[email]"/></p>
     <p><input type="submit" value="Save" /></p>
   </form>
 </div>