Thanks for the response! Unfortunately that's not quite what I was looking for. What I'm trying to do is essentially display the contents of a view as a result of an Ajax request rather than send JSON data as a result of a controller function (which is what the blog article was talking about). My solution for now is basically to output the contents of the view and then append them to a div using jQuery. I was apparently misunderstanding what the 'ajax' parameter was supposed to do. If anyone knows of a cleaner way of doing this, I'm all ears, but my solution appears to fit my needs for now.
On Apr 14, 7:33 am, thatsgreat2345 <thatsgreat2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do > thishttp://www.sanisoft.com/blog/2010/10/25/cakephp-sending-json-data-in-... > > 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)? -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
