Question

I am trying to send data over to a cakephp (mvc) website, via $.post(). below is the code

$('#testReq').click(function () {
    console.log('Button Works');
    $.post('http://play.anthonylgordon.com/usersessions/store/', { data: 'test7' }, function (data) {
        //data contains the json object retrieved.
        console.log(data.status);
    }, "json");
})

Below is the cakephp data that retrieves the data and stores it. If you know cake, great but if not it’s fine. I am really trying to figure out if i am sending the data correctly

<?php
    class UsersessionsController extends AppController {
        var $name = 'Usersessions';
        var $helpers = array('Html', 'Form','Ajax');
        var $components = array('RequestHandler');


        function store()
        {
           Configure::write('debug', 0);
           $this->autoRender = false;
           echo 'hello';
            if ($this->params['url']['data'])
            {
                $this->data['Usersession']['data'] = $this->params['url']['data'];
                $this->Usersession->Save($this->data);
                echo 'Success';
            }   
        }
    }
?>

As you can see I put ‘hello’ before it does any evaluating. I should be able to see that in my console but I dont. I tried this method with the get and I did see the response ‘hello’. Which is leaving me to the conclusion that you can not send data CROSS domain via $.post. The only method that seems to work is getJSON() unless someone can prove me wrong.

Answer 1

You cannot perform ordinary cross domain ajax requests. You need to use JSONP and this works only with GET requests (that’s because jquery injects a script tag to the DOM in order to perform the request and a script tag can only use GET to fetch javascript).