Question

For example I have an action in Controller.

public function redirectnowAction() {
   $this->_redirect( '/module/controller/action' );
}

When I call above action in normal way then it redirect successfully to desired location But when I call above action by AJAX then it does not redirect to required URL and only show desired page content in firebug.

JS code for AJAX

jQuery('.AjaxLink').live( 'click', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    // load the href attribute of the link that was clicked
    jQuery.getJSON(this.href, function(snippets) {
        for(var id in snippets) {
            // updated to deal with any type of HTML
            jQuery('#' + id).html( snippets[id] );
        }
    });
});

How to redirect to action after AJAX request ?

Thanks

Answer 1

You cannot do it directly, here’s what I’d do. In the action called via AJAX, include something like this:

echo Zend_Json::encode(array('redirect' => '/module/controller/action'));

This way, your AJAX call will receive a JSON object as a response. In jQuery’s $.ajax() call, you can specify a success event, e.g.:

'dataType': 'json', // expects to receive a JSON-formatted response
'success': function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
    window.location.replace('http://www.example.com' + data.redirect);
}