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How to detect a Ajax request?
 
camille roux
Posted: 26 August 2007 01:19 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Hello,

I’d like to use Ajax (surely Mootools) on my website, so I need a function to detect whether a request is from Ajax or not, because I want not to send the same data in each case.
Do you know how to do that?

Thank you
 
Doosje
Posted: 26 August 2007 01:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']=="XMLHttpRequest") {
        }else{
            // header("Location: " . base_url());
        } 


this is how i do it.
 
coolfactor
Posted: 26 August 2007 03:55 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Doosje, that’s a very handy approach. Has it been your experience that that works with all Apache installs?

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Doosje
Posted: 26 August 2007 04:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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You can just try it with vardump($_SERVER) and see if the ‘extra’ XMLHttpRequest is there.
If you use prototype & scriptaculous .. this works…. I don’t know if you’d make your own library but i guess it works too.
 
camille roux
Posted: 26 August 2007 06:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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I’m sure there’s a better way than using vardump… That looks like quite ugly, doesn’t it?
 
Doosje
Posted: 26 August 2007 06:42 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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it’s just for checking if the extra header “XMLHttpRequest” is there. .. nothing else..
You could do a echo $_SERVER[‘XMLHttpRequest’]; but ... if it’s called someting else, you could miss it. !
 
camille roux
Posted: 26 August 2007 06:50 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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I want to use Mootool, so I’ve just to find the name for the variable (XMLHttpRequest), test it and it’s ok, isn’t it?
 
Doosje
Posted: 26 August 2007 06:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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It sure looks like it..grin

try my code ...and see what it does.
 
deviant
Posted: 27 August 2007 09:09 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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The code Doojse posted has worked for me in the past, didn’t do any major compatibility tests though.
 
alexsancho
Posted: 27 August 2007 10:43 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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This code works with all major javascript frameworks, and it’s easy to include in any ajax library, you only need to send this header with any ajax call.

I’ve extended the input library to add a function that return TRUE, FALSE,

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

in this way we can check ajax request with

if($this->input->isAjax()) {
        ...
    } 
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Ignacio
Posted: 09 January 2009 01:01 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Thanks, this is working good!

It could be good having something like

$this->load->ajax(‘page’)

instead of

//Check ajax here
$this->load->view('page') 
 
atno
Posted: 19 September 2011 03:49 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Ignacio - 09 January 2009 06:01 PM

Thanks, this is working good!

It could be good having something like

$this->load->ajax(‘page’)

instead of

//Check ajax here
$this->load->view('page') 

or you could do

if($this->input->isAjax()) {
    $this->load->view('my_ajax_view');
} 
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Dennis Rasmussen
Posted: 19 September 2011 04:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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atno - 19 September 2011 07:49 AM
if($this->input->isAjax()) {
    $this->load->view('my_ajax_view');
} 

Well the topic is several years old :)

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atno
Posted: 19 September 2011 04:55 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Bad me!
BTW, I love lasagne too smile

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Piter
Posted: 19 September 2011 06:02 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]   [ Rating: 1 ]
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Is User Guide:

$this->input->is_ajax_request() 

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/input.html

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Dennis Rasmussen
Posted: 19 September 2011 06:04 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Piter - 19 September 2011 10:02 AM

Is User Guide:

$this->input->is_ajax_request() 

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/input.html

Welcome to year 2007!
That’s what happens when you bump old posts atno :P

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