title: Django Ajax Jquery Call
body: <p>This may be basic, but I've spent two days, read countless tutorials and I still can not get this to work. For simplicitly I tried to accomplish a basic task just to see it work. I want to send make an ajax call to my donate view. I see that it successfully passes through but I was expecting that my template would also get updated to "TRUE" but it remains "FALSE". Any help or suggestions I appreciate. </p>
  
  <p>my jquery...</p>
  
  <pre><code>$.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url:"/donate/",
      data: {
      'test': 'success',
      },
      success: function(){
        alert('test')
       },
      error: function(){
          alert("Error");
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this is my view... </p>
  
  <pre><code>def donate(request):
      if request.is_ajax():
          test = "TRUE"
  
      if request.method == 'POST':
          form = DonateForm(request.POST)
          if form.is_valid():
              form.save()
      else:
          form = DonateForm()
          test = "FALSE"
  
      return render_to_response('donate_form.html', {'form':form,'test':test}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>my template include this...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h1&gt;{{ test }}&lt;/h1&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <h2>Update/Solution</h2>
  
  <p>Like mentioned in the comments on this question, I was not doing anything the the returned data. I updated my success call to the following and it worked </p>
  
  <pre><code>    $.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url:"/donate/",
      data: {
      'zip': zip,
      },
      success: function(data){            
  
          results = $(data).find('#results').html()               
          $("#id_date").replaceWith("&lt;span&gt;" + results + "&lt;/span &gt;");
  
      },
      error: function(){
          alert("Error");
      },
  </code></pre>