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Where do you put your AJAX stuff?
 
Samuurai
Posted: 12 November 2009 09:53 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Before CI, I used to have one file “ajaxStuff.php” which handled all of my ajax calls.

Now in this MVC architecture of CI, where is the best place to put them? Create a controller just for ajax or within the controller the call relates to?
 
Zeeshan Rasool
Posted: 12 November 2009 10:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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I just call Ajax calls from my views , but calling it through controller is good option

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Samuurai
Posted: 12 November 2009 11:21 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Hi Thanks for the reply!


I’m talking about the response to the ajax call. What do you do for that?
 
n0xie
Posted: 12 November 2009 12:51 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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The controller/method that is appropriate for that request?

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Samuurai
Posted: 12 November 2009 02:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Cool… I’ve got a method called availability, and I’ve set up another method called availabilityAjax.

I know there’s many ways to skin a cat.. I just want to make sure i’m using the best way ! smile
 
eoinmcg
Posted: 12 November 2009 02:08 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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the way i usually do it is extend the controller class (MY_Controller) to have a method to check if the call was AJAX based.

e.g.

function _is_ajax() 
    {
        return (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] == 'XMLHttpRequest'));
    } 

and then in the relevant controller/method i can take appropriate action
e.g.

function sample_method() 
    {
        if($this->_is_ajax())
        {
            // do you ajax thing here    
        }
        else
        {
            // not an ajax call, reload the page or whatever is needed
        }
    } 
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Samuurai
Posted: 12 November 2009 02:37 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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That is effing brilliant! I had no idea that server variable even existed!
 
eoinmcg
Posted: 12 November 2009 04:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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glad to be of help.

now just add a sprinkling of magic jquery dust to the mix and you’re good to go wink

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Samuurai
Posted: 12 November 2009 05:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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jQuery is my new best friend ! I’m still a newbie with jQuery and javascript and am still in “bracket and curly brace hell” but I’ve still got some cool stuff done with it.

Thanks again!
 
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Posted: 12 November 2009 10:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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i am using jquery too and other javascript files.
you can put your javascript anywhere, but most preferable make a js folder at the root folder
then put them all.

Note: use base_url in including your scripts.

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