Question

I have a file under webroot folder out of cakephp default installation and I want to get a json response back. But when I try to do that I get this error

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://test.com/companies/all_company_information. Origin http://dev.local is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

 $.ajax({

         type: 'POST',
         url: '/controller/method',
         dataType: 'json',
         success: function(data){

             console.log(data);

         }

     });

I have read up on some of the info on google but I think I am not understanding this.

EDIT

when I use jsonp I get this error

Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type text/html:

$.ajax({

         type: 'POST',
         url: '/controller/method',
         dataType: 'jsonp',
         success: function(data){

             console.log(data);

         }

     });

Answer 1

Try creating a function in an appropriate controller that is setup to respond with the intended json. A controller configured to respond with json:

function feed($date){
$this->layout = 'ajax';
$this->autoLayout = false;
$data = $this->Model->find();
echo json_encode($data);
}

I use the firefox extension firebug heavily in order to ensure my ajax requests are going through and what their responses are.