milesjohnson

While working on this app, I thought I would give the not so used method, setAction() a spin. If you are unfamiliar with setAction(), its a method that will internally forward one action to another. This is incredibly useful as it allows you to switch actions without having to do another HTTP request, nor having to reload all the controller and related objects; could be a huge saver on overhead. Continue reading...

The Controller and HTTP response are now working correctly, so it is time to display the response message to the client. We will achieve this by utilizing jQuery to output our JSON. The plan is to show a success message if the JSON passed or display a list of errors if it has failed. Continue reading...

Now that you have setup the Javascript and view to properly fire off an AJAX call, it's time to process the call within the Controller. We will build and write all the required logic to properly handle an AJAX call and return the response. Continue reading...

One of topics I always see pop up in the CakePHP Google Groups is how to correctly do AJAX calls in CakePHP. I will be splitting this up into 3 different entries, the first will be pertaining to the view/Javascript (front-end) and how to fire off the AJAX call, the second will deal with the Controller action and how to process the request, and the final entry will be dealing with the response (in JSON format). Continue reading...