Question

i have a controller that have with in let’s say thingy/stuff directory

<?php public function index() { /*thingy stuff */ }

public function anotherfunction() {/*other thingy stuff*/} ?>

i see tthe url like index.php?route=thingy/stuff&var=dd

what i want is to call an $.post to this function inside that controller

so it uses another template file thingy.tpl and return html to use

what the URL should like ??

i searched for hours ans it sounds like there is no development documentation for open-cart out there

Answer 1

let’s say you have a controller called “stuff” under the thingy folder and a function called “my function” within that class, that looks like this:

class ControllerThingyStuff extends Controller {
    public function index() {  
  // Some code
}
public function myfunction() {
// Your code
}
}

if you want to directly communicate with this function using the URL you can add the function name to the end of the route parameter “route=thingy/stuff/myfunction& …” and load the thingy.tpl inside the function and return it after rendering:

// some code
$this->template = 'template/product/thingy.tpl';
...
$this->response->setOutput($this->render());

if are using the open cart 1.5 and you want to use jQuery AJAX with JSON then you’ll need to import the JSON library before rendering:

$this->template = 'thingy/stuff/thingy.tpl';
$json['output'] = $this->render();
$this->load->library('json');
$this->response->setOutput(Json::encode($json));

take a look at the checkout page to get some ideas, the default open cart 1.5 template uses the same technique to load the templates for each section.