thanx for the reply marcelo.... so i think i need to reconsider a better understanding of cakephp
therefore i now turned into a much simple program in cakephp using all its feature .... but still am not able to get the value from jquery to a controller in cakephp heres what i did.... i created a controller as follows beers_controller.php ======================================= <?php class BeersController extends AppController { var $name = "Beers"; var $uses = null; var $helpers = array('Form', 'Html', 'Javascript', 'Time','Paginator','Ajax'); var $components = array('RequestHandler','Email'); function view_beer() { print_r($this->params); } function add_beer() { Configure::write('debug', 0); $this->autoRender = false; if($this->RequestHandler->isAjax()) { $this->Session->write('BeersInOurSession', $this->params['form']['id']); pr($this->Session->read('BeersInOurSession')); print_r($this->Session->read('BeersInOurSession')); } print_r($this->Session->read('BeersInOurSession')); $pop = $this->Session->read('BeersInOurSession'); print_r($pop); echo "pop=$pop"; } } ?> ======================================= =>what i have did here is just created a view page for the function view_beer() which contains just a simple link and i have passed a value of id thru it... i used jquery to post this value and need this value in the contoller to be viewd but still no go, heres my view file view_beer.ctp ========================================== <?php //let's load up the jQuery core echo $javascript->link('jquery-1.3.2.min'); //and now... some file that will be specific to this view (page) echo $javascript->link('beers_view_beer'); ?> <?php echo $html->link('add beer', '#', array('onclick'=>'return false;', 'id'=>'some-beer-name', 'class'=>'add-beer-link')); ?> <? echo "<br/>"; echo "<br/>"; echo "<br/>"; $pp = $session->read('BeersInOurSession'); echo "pop=$pp"; ?> =========================================== =>as u can see its just an id thts am trying to get in the controller printed ie. in this case would be " some-beer-name "....................... my javascript file for this is beers_view_beer.js ========================================= $(document).ready(function() { $('.add-beer-link').click( function () { $.post('/beers/add_beer', {id: $(this).attr('id')}); }); }); ========================================= =Isn't this a pretty simple stufff....................... =>Am really getting frustrated...... =>is there something that am doing wrong............. =>Or is there any other method to get the values displayed =>ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.......... => THANZ IN ADVANCEEE........................... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---