Question

I am using Codeigniter with Zurb Foundation framewrk. i am tryin to load data in reveal box(fancy popup) using AJAX.. The trick is, i am not loading just the inner html content, but the HTML itself..I mean, i want the function in controller to return the php file to ajax calling function whose contents will be displayed in popup.. My code is

Ajax function call

function ajaxfunct() {
            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: "welcome/test",
                data: { name: "Jigar", location: "jain" }
            }).done(function( html ) {
                $("#tagUser").append(html);


            });
        }

My Controller Code is

public function test() {
    $data['name'] = $_POST['name'];
    $data['location'] = $_POST['location'];
    $this->load->view('index', $data);
    echo 'WHAT SHUD I ECHO HERE ?'
}

I know the last 2 lines of my Controller code is wrong..I just dont know how to fetch a php file from views folder, process it and pass it to ajax as a pre-processed html(string).

I am not looking for entire code..just a reference to some function or online tutorials will be great..
thanx

Answer 1

You already do fetch a PHP file from your views folder in your Controller.

The line

$this->load->view('index', $data);

Loads the /application/views/index.php file and processes it with data from the $data array.

So for Your AJAX call you could make a different view file than index.php like test.php that contain the proper HTML for the AJAX and call it with the line

$this->load->view('test', $data);

And skip the ECHO part…