simple ajax example with cakephp 2.3.0

Question

please help me, if anyone can give me an example how to use ajax with cakephp 2.3.0 an example is like this

<?php echo $this->html->link('Original', '#', 
                array('onclick'=>'return false;', 'id'=>'remanufactured-link', 'class'=>'get-type-product-link')); ?>   

<div id="content">
</div>

when i click a original link a div with id content is change. how can i do it this with cakephp 2.3.0?

Answer 1

There's not much difference to using CakePHP with Ajax than with regular HTML/PHP and Ajax.

Here's an example of an ajax call and response in a Cake APP:

jQuery:

$.ajax({
    url: '/types/fetch/original',
    cache: false,
    type: 'GET',
    dataType: 'HTML',
    success: function (data) {
        $('#context').html(data);
    }
});

(Don't forget to change the url parameter to match your setup).

This will make an ajax request to your Types controller and call the method fetch() with the parameter 'original'.

Your TypesController would look something like this:

class TypesController extends AppController {

    public $components = array(
        'RequestHandler'
    );

    public function fetch($type) {

        $data = $this->Type->find('all', array(
            'conditions'=>array(
                'Type.type'=>$type
            )
        );

        $this->set('data', $data);

    }
}

Adding the RequestHandler component means Cake will automatically use the minimal Ajax layout when rendering your Ajax requests. Usually this is added in AppController so all Controllers can use it.

And the associated view:

/app/View/Types/fetch.ctp

<ul>
    <?php foreach($data as $item): ?>
    <li><?php echo $item['Type']['name']; ?></li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>