Question

My controller get datas from database model, and sends them to view. In view i do foreach loop to draw divs to each entity. Every single div has a form element to rate its entity.

Controller:

function index(){
    $data['main_content'] = 'list';
    $data['entities'] = $this->database_model->getEntities();
    $this->load->view('template', $data);
}

function postRate(){
    $rate = array(
        'entity_id' => $this->input->post('entity_id'),
        'owner_id' => $this->input->post('owner_id'),
        'value' => $this->input->post('value')
    );
    $this->database_model->persistRate($rate);
    $this->index();
}

Model:

function getEntities(){
    return $this->db->get('entity')->result();
}

function persistRate($rate){
    return $this->db->insert('rate', $rate);
}

View:

<?php foreach($entities as $entity) : ?>
    <div class="entity">
        <?php echo form_open('entities/postRate/', $attr); ?>
        <?php echo form_hidden('entity_id', $entity->id); ?>
        <?php echo form_hidden('owner_id', $userid); ?>
        <?php echo form_hidden('value', 1); ?>
        <?php echo form_submit('submit', '+1'); ?>
        <?php echo form_close(); ?>
    </div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

In this case after rating, entire page will be reloaded but i want to refresh only that div where form was submited. I know javascript or jQuery can do it, ..
UPDATE
.. but i don’t know their logics, how will they know the exact div or the exact (updated) data of actual entity ? Shall i get it from database? i’m just confused with js/jquery/ajax.

Answer 1

It is really simple and can be found here: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

Here is an example:

$.ajax({
  url: "http://localhost/your_site/controller/method/",
  type: "POST",
  data: {id : 123},
  dataType: "html",
  success: function(data) {
    $('.result').html(data);
  }
});

<div class="result">
//YOUR AJAX RESULT WILL BE HERE
</div>

Your controller method should receive a post variable called id.

That is a basic example, you really should read the link and learn more about it. 😉