Question

I’m running Sitecore 6.4 and trying to get some data using ajax and webmethod in Sitecore. Everything is in a sublayout (user control)

This is the code that calls the webmethod:

$("#NextBanner").click(function () {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "/GetNext",
        data: "{}",
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function (data) {
            alert('success');
        },
        error: function (err) {
            alert('error');
        }
    });

This is the webmethod, returns a string:

[WebMethod]
public static string GetNext()
{
    return "Hello";
}

In a test project without using Sitecore I used “Default.aspx/GetNext” as the url for the ajax call but now obviously this doesn’t work, I get 404 not found error because of the url.

What should the url be? The sublayout path is: /layouts/sublayouts/test.ascx

Any recommendation on a different approach of achieving this?

Thanks,
T

Update

Thanks everybody for the answers.

I ended up creating a web service under website/sitecore/shell/webservices, not sure if that’s the right place to put the web service, any suggestions?

Thanks,
T

Answer 1

I created a folder under ‘Website’ and placed my web services there.