Question

I’m trying to figure out why when it gets gets to the getLast5Messages function in my controller it returns the following but in the response in the javascript it puts the html of the page. I don’t get it.

[{"id":"1","subject":"Testing","firstName":"Kevin","lastName":"Smith","dateSent":"March 30th, 2012","messageRead":"0"}]

js:

function getMessages()
{
$('.mail').empty();
$.get('dashboard/getLast5Messages', function(data)
{
   if(data.length > 0)
    {
        $.each(data, function(x)
        {
            if (data[x]['messageRead'] == 0) 
            {
                $('.mail').append('<li><a href="pmsystem/viewmessage/'+data[x]['id']+'"><strong>Received: '+data[x]['dateSent']+'</strong><small>'+data[x]['subject']+'</small><small>From: '+data[x]['firstName']+' '+data[x]['lastName']+'</small></a></li>'); 
            }
            else
            {
                $('.mail').append('<li class="read"><a href="pmsystem/viewmessage/'+data[x]['id']+'"><strong>Received: '+data[x]['dateSent']+'</strong><small>'+data[x]['subject']+'</small><small>From: '+data[x]['firstName']+' '+data[x]['lastName']+'</small></a></li>');     
            }
        });
    }
    else
    {
        $('.mail').append('<li>No Messages</li>');
    }
}, 'json');
}

php:

public function getLast5Messages()
{
    echo $this->pmmodel->getLast5Messages($this->session->userdata('userID'));
}

/**
 * Retrieve last 5 messages in inbox
 *
 * @param   integer
 * @return  object
 */
function getLast5Messages($userID)
{
    // Check args
    if (!is_numeric($userID))
    {
        throw new Exception('Non-numeric $userID provided to getLast5Messages()');
    }

    $this->db->select('pm.id');
    $this->db->select('pm.subject');
    $this->db->select('users.firstName');
    $this->db->select('users.lastName');
    $this->db->select("DATE_FORMAT(pm.dateSent, '%M %D, %Y') AS dateSent", false);
    $this->db->select('pmr.messageRead');
    $this->db->from('usersPersonalMessages AS pm');
    $this->db->join('users', 'users.userID = pm.senderID');
    $this->db->join('usersPersonalMessagesRecipients AS pmr',
        'pm.id = pmr.usersPersonalMessagesID');
    $this->db->where('pmr.userID', $userID);
    $this->db->order_by('pm.dateSent', 'desc');
    $this->db->limit(5);
    $query = $this->db->get();
    if ($query->num_rows() > 0) 
    {
        return $query->result();
    }
    return array();
}

I’m still not able to figure this out? Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

Answer 1

It was

public function getLast5Messages()
{
    echo json_encode($this->pmmodel->getLast5Messages($this->session->userdata('userID')));
}