I am attempting to replace an existing perl webapp with Bootstrap and PHP, but running into problems on multiple forms posting.

I have a form for adding a "host group" and then populate a dropdown box from a list of hosts from a SQL database, each time a host is selected it is added to a hidden table for action. So I need multiple PHP commands, one to add the initial host group record and then a second series for each host group to host combination in the hidden table. (Naturally I need the database record ID of the master "host group" record to add to the second table for 'host-group-to-host' mapping).

I can't use a conventional POST form with PHP, and I have tried using the following format but the initial php submit works but any subsequent submits do not (it opens the modal, accepts the data but then does nothing, I have to press "F5" to perform a full refresh before it will add another entry).

Here is some of the sample form and the code.

        

         

               

                   Host Group Name 
                  
               
               

                   Hosts Members 
                  
               
               

                   Active 
                  

                     
                     True
                  
                  

                     
                     False
                  
               

and this is the jquery code.

I am thinking that the POST is too simplistic for the type of control I need, so do I need to write my own POST / modal handler code inside a button rather than rely on the native HTML posting?

Regards, Robert