Question

I wrote a module that is dependent on some third party device (load, parse & display). Sometimes it takes 5 seconds for it to respond so I tried to ajaxify this part.

My Joomla! module is ready as well as code with AJAX (mootools) but I can’t figure out the URL to access my module php file “infused” by Joomla! (something like /index.php?option=com_content). I can hardcode and access it (/modules/mod_a/xyz.php) but I will run into “direct access not allowed” which is no trouble, but I don’t have the Joomla! context which I pretty much miss.

All I found utilizes components which I would very much like to avoid.

Thanks for suggestions,

Regards,

Marek

Answer 1

I did write the simplest component I could (no MVC):

defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
$task = JRequest::getWord('task');
if ($task == "getCurrentTemp") {
 // return temperature
}

This can be printed (heredoc) to JS by JURI::current().”index.php?option=com_xzy&task=getCurrentTemp”.
Not being able to access module sucks a little bit but I understand that from architectural point of view.