I'm currently in the process of rewriting an entire site of mine so that it's compatible with CI. I'm fairly new with CI and the MVC pattern in general. I followed this tutorial and have made a pretty decent template for the view part of the MVC pattern. The thing is, a lot of my site uses jQuery/AJAX to make it more dynamic. For example, on all of my pages on my site, I have an input field that uses jQuery to load a PHP file upon keyup.
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#search_bar").keyup(function(){
var search = $("#search_bar").val();
var url = "search_bar.php";
var data = "q="+ search;
$('#livesearch').load(url, data);
$("#livesearch").slideDown("fast");
});
</script>
<input type='text' maxlength='30' id='search_bar' autocomplete='off' placeholder='Browse Teams' />
<div id='livesearch' style='display:none;'></div>
All of the backend work that's required to load the results happens in the PHP file that loaded via jQuery (search_bar.php). So, should "search_bar" be its own View that's triggered by its own Controller and then Modeled by a model called "search_bar"? Again, I'm very new to the MVC pattern and am not quite sure how properly integrate AJAX with a object oriented framework like CI.
Thanks
Directly calling the view in ajax
request is not a good practice call the controller which loads the view or directly do the stuff in the controller's function
<script type='text/javascript'>
$('#search_bar').keyup(function(){
$.ajax({
url: 'yourcontrollername/search_bar_yourfunction',
type:'POST',
data: {q: search,
success: function(result){
$("#livesearch").html(result);
$("#livesearch").slideDown("fast");
}
});
});
</script>
Your controller code
class yourcontrollername extends My_Controller {
public function search_bar_yourfunction() {
//do your stuff and store in the $data[] array
$this->load->view("search_bar",$data); //search_bar.php
die();
}
}
}
You should go from your View to the Controller:
<script type='text/javascript' language='javascript'>
$('#search_bar').keyup(function(){
$.ajax({
url: 'search_bar.php',
type:'GET',
data: {q: search,
success: function(result){
//Insert code here
} // End of success function of ajax form
}); // End of ajax call
});
</script>
Then in your controller, load a model if necessary:
public function weigeren() {
$user = $this->CI->authex->getUserInfo();
$data['title'] = "Test";
$this->load->model('search_model');
$query = $this->input->get('q');
if (isset($user)) {
echo $this->search_model->search($query);
}
}
I find one way to load ajax (jquery) in CodeIgniter 3. Example,
structure of folder:
- controllers/Upload.php
- view/admin/ajax_view/ajax_images.php
controllers/upload:
public function process()
{
$data['my_picture'] = array(
'pic_id' => '1',
'pic_path' => 'http://example.com/images',
);
$this->load->view('admin/ajax_view/ajax_images', $data);
}
view/admin/ajax_view/ajax_images:
<?php foreach($my_picture as $key => $row): ?>
<td><?php echo $my_picture['pic_path']; ?></td>
<?php endforeach; ?>
view/admin/form_upload:
<tbody>
<tr class="trbody">
<th scope="row">1</th>
<!-- <td></td> --> <!--comments this because appends element jquery-->
</tr>
</tbody>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#my_button').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault;
$.ajax({
url: 'upload/process',
dataType: 'text',
type: 'post',
success: function(data){
$('.trbody')
.append(
'<td>'+ data + '</td>'
);
},
error: function(errorThrown){
console.log(errorThrown);
}
});
});
});
</script>
To this way, I separated view of ajax of whole pages and load ajax view when
event trigger.