Question

My cake php application seems to be messing with my overlays, in which I am loading content from another view. It works like the following:

//Show project settings
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.project-edit').on('click', function () {
        overlay_start('projects/show_project_settings');
    });
});

//Function for overlay
function overlay_start(path) {
    $('#overlay-center').load(path);
    $('#overlay').fadeIn(200);
    $('#overlay-center').fadeIn(200);
}

This is my ProjectsController’s method:

//Display project settings overlay
public function show_project_settings() {
    $this->render('/Elements/editable/ProjectSettings');
}

I am on projects/index, and upon clicking a link the overlay loads. It does in fact load, however, it simply loads the same view I am already on – not ProjectSettings.ctp.

Something tells me I am missing something in the projects controller. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I found out what the problem was. My path was leading to:

.../admin/projects/show_project_settings

but should instead have led to:

.../projects/show_project_settings

So what I did was

overlay_start( $.gdUrl().root() + 'projects/show_project_settings' );

and then it got the path right.

It was not an authentication issue.