Question

I have a PHP page with HTML content in it. Now I run some PHP codes between HTMLs and I get some results. The fact is, when I try to get a respond from this page by AJAX it’ll show me the whole page content and plus the result I was looking for. What can I do to prevent the page from writing extra content. I know whenever something get printed on page it’ll go as respond to the AJAX call but I want a way to somehow fix this.

My page file (name: page.php):

<?php echo $Content->GetData('HEADER'); ?>
    <div id="Content">
      <div id="Page">
        <?php if($Content->GetData('PAGE','IS_TRUE')) : ?>
        <?php if(NULL !== $Content->GetData('PAGE','TITLE')) : ?>
        <?php echo $Content->GetPlugins("Page:" . $Content->GetData('PAGE','ID') . ",BeforeTitle"); ?>
        <div id="Title" dir="rtl">
          <a href="<?php echo $Content->GetInfo('ABS_ROOT') . "page/" . $Content->GetData('PAGE','NAME'); ?>"><?php echo $Content->GetData('PAGE','TITLE'); ?></a>
        </div>
        <?php echo $Content->GetPlugins("Page:" . $Content->GetData('PAGE','ID') . ",AfterTitle"); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
        <div id="Content" dir="rtl">
          <div style="float: right; width: 966px; padding: 6px">
            <?php echo $Content->GetPlugins("Page:" . $Content->GetData('PAGE','ID') . ",BeforeContent"); ?>
            <?php echo $Content->GetData('PAGE','CONTENT'); ?>
            <?php echo $Content->GetPlugins("Page:" . $Content->GetData('PAGE','ID') . ",AfterContent"); ?>
          </div>
        </div>
        <?php else : ?>
        <div id="Content" dir="rtl">
          <div style="float: right; width: 966px; padding: 6px">
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          </div>
        </div>
        <?php endif; ?>
      </div>
    </div>
<?php echo $Content->GetData('FOOTER'); ?>

If I write an address in my browser like this localhost/cload/blog?action=rate it’ll go through my redirection list and show the page.php with blog plugin loaded. The problem is I want to call my blog plugin by AJAX through this address but it will first render the page data.

Sorry if this is messy.

Answer 1

I’d suggest modifying page.php to be some functions, primarily a data processing function, and then an output function. Then, when you load the page, put a check in for whether it’s an AJAX request, and if so, echo the data you want as JSON, otherwise render the page using the output function.

Alternatively, you could create a second, separate page, but that could be more difficult to maintain than a single file.