Is there anyway to detect if the current server operation is currently an AJAX request in WordPress?
For example:
is_ajax()
Is there anyway to detect if the current server operation is currently an AJAX request in WordPress?
For example:
is_ajax()
If you're using AJAX as recommended in the codex, then you can test for the DOING_AJAX
constant:
if (defined('DOING_AJAX') && DOING_AJAX) { /* it's an AJAX call */ }
WordPress 4.7 has introduced an easy way to check for AJAX requests, so I thought I would add to this older question.
wp_doing_ajax()
From the Developer Reference:
Description: Determines whether the current request is a WordPress Ajax request.
Return: (bool) True if it's a WordPress Ajax request, false otherwise.
It is essentially a wrapper for DOING_AJAX.
To see if the current request is an AJAX request sent from a js library ( like jQuery ), you could try something like this:
if( ! empty( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH' ] ) &&
strtolower( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH' ]) == 'xmlhttprequest' ) {
//This is an ajax request.
}
I am not sure if WordPress has a function for this but it can be done by creating a simple one yourself.
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest')
{
// Is AJAX request
return true;
}
I know this is an old thread, but there is an issue with the accepted answer,
Checking for the defined DOING_AJAX constant will always be true, if the request is to the admin-ajax.php file. (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.4.2/src/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php#L16)
Sometimes admin-ajax.php hooks aren't used for AJAX request, just a simple endpoint (Paypal IPN for example).
The correct way is what Ian and Spencer have mentioned.
if( ! empty( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH' ] ) &&
strtolower( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH' ]) == 'xmlhttprequest' ) {
//This is an ajax request.
}
(would have commented... but no rep)
if ( ! function_exists('is_ajax') ) {
function is_ajax() {
return defined( 'DOING_AJAX' );
}
}