AngularStrap close modal with controller - angularjs

Question

I'm using AngularStrap with bootstrap.
I have a modal dialog that uses it's own controller. How can I close the modal using this local controller?
I instantiate the controller on a button like this:
<button type="button"
class="btn btn-success btn-lg"
bs-modal="modal"
data-template="user-login-modal.html"
data-container="body"
ng-controller="userLoginController"
>Click here to log in</button>
and the userLoginController has this:
$scope.authenticate = function(){
this.hide(); // this doesn't work
}
This is obviously just a demo, I want it to close on successful login, but this is where the code I'd use to close it would go.
I've tried instantiating the modal programmatically (use the $modal service to create the modal) but I haven't been able to figure out how to inject the controller through that method.
If I were to do something like emit an event from the modal using the bs-modal directive, how can I reference the modal to close it?
here's my plnkr:
http://plnkr.co/edit/m5gT1HiOl1X9poicWIEi?p=preview

Answer 1

When in the on-click function do
$scope.myClickEvent = function () {
this.$hide();
}

Answer 2

Figured out a good method:
I moved the ng-controller to the TEMPLATE and instantiate the modal using the provided modal service. I then use a rootscope broad cast to let everyone know that someone successfully logged in.
new controller code:
var loginModal = $modal({template:'/template.html', show:false});
$scope.showLogin = function(){
loginModal.$promise.then(loginModal.show);
}
$scope.$on("login", function(){
loginModal.$promise.then(loginModal.hide);
});
the button just looks like this now:
<button type="button"
class="btn btn-success btn-lg"
ng-click="showLogin()"
>Click here to log in</button>
and my template has the old ng-controller in the first tag.

Answer 3

I am probably too late, but just wish to share my answer. If all you need is hiding the modal after form success, then bind that $hide function to one of controller varriable.
<div class="modal" data-ng-controller="Controller" data-ng-init="bindHideModalFunction($hide)">
In the controller:
// Bind the hiding modal function to controller and call it when form is success
$scope.hideModal;
$scope.bindHideModalFunction =function(hideModalFunction){
$scope.hideModal = hideModalFunction;
}

Answer 4

I found all of the above answers way too complicated for your use case (and mine when I ran into this problem).
All you need to do, is chain the ng-click to use the built in $hide() function that angular strap bundles.
So your ng-click would look like: ng-click="authenticate();$hide()"

Answer 5

Using Angular and bootstrap if you want to submit data to controller then have the modal close just simply add onclick="$('.modal').modal('hide')" line to the submit button. This way it will hit the controller and close the modal. If you use data-dismiss="modal" in the button submit never hits the controller. At least for me it didn't. And this is not to say my method is a best practice but a quick one liner to get data to at least submit and close out the modal.
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" ng-controller="SubmitCtrl">
<div class="modal-dialog" role="document">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-body">
<form ng-submit="submit()">
<input type="text" ng-model="name" />
<button type="submit" onclick="$('.modal').modal('hide')">Submit</button>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 6

Perhaps open it with the service on click and have it close itself on the $destroy event?
$scope.openModal = function()
{
$scope.modal = $modal({
template: "user-login-modal.html",
container="body"
});
}
$scope.$on("$destroy", function()
{
if ($scope.modal)
{
$scope.modal.hide();
}
});