Do this
http://www.sanisoft.com/blog/2010/10/25/cakephp-sending-json-data-in-response/
On Apr 13, 11:29 am, Will <000w.s.s....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm brand new to CakePHP, so forgive me if this is a silly question,
> but I have been having trouble understanding how render() is supposed
> to work with Ajax calls. Right now I am trying to implement a
> calendar that has a load bar that disappears once all the scheduling
> data for a particular group of employees is gathered from a somewhat
> slow RESTful API. I am using jQuery to send a post request to my
> controller like this:
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> var id = $('#id").val();
> $.post('/employees/month_view', {empid: id}, function(data){
> $('#loading').fadeOut();
> });
>
> })
>
> In my controller, I have a function called month_view() that looks
> like this:
>
> function month_view(){
> $this->autoRender = false;
> $empid = $this->params['form']['empid'];
> $conditions= array('empid' => $empid);
> $employees = $this->Employee->find('all', compact('conditions'));
> $employees = array();
> $this->set('employees', $employees);
> $this->render('/employees/month_view');
>
> }
>
> I looked around and found a book ("Beginning Cake PHP: From Novice to
> Professional") and a blog article (http://www.reversefolds.com/
> articles/show/ajax) that seems to suggest that I should be able to
> call $this->render('/employees/month_view', 'ajax') and have the month
> view render on the page. However, that does not seem to work for me
> and both of those sources look somewhat dated. Right now it appears
> that the month_view.ctp is just being output as if I were calling echo
> on the view, so if I changed my JavaScript to:
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> ...
> $.post('/employees/month_view', {empid: id}, function(data){
> $('#loading').fadeOut($('#content').append(data));
> });
>
> })
>
> I can append the template to the content div, but that feels like the
> wrong way of doing things. My question is: can I call render() for a
> controller function that's being accessed via Ajax and have it display
> the view directly or do I have to use JavaScript to append it (like
> the above)?
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