Question

Ok so i am trying to retrieve data from an ajax request and possibly if possible set a php array …I am not even sure if this is possible considering one is client side and one is server side…so here is my code

on the html page

<?php foreach ($products as $product): ?>
  <li>
  <h3><span><?php print $product["price"]; ?></span> (4) <?php print $product["name"]; ?> </h3>
    <div class="container">
 <table  width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
 <td valign="top" width="42"><span class="qty"><?php print $product["quanitity"]; ?></span></td>
 <td width="180">
 ........  

and I want to loop through all the products in this array but to get the products I need to make an ajax call like this

$.ajax({
    type: 'post',
    url: "/shop_systems/index.php?route=module/cart/get_all_products",          
    dataType: 'json',
  data: {current : null, previous : these_ids, quantity : 1, multiple : true},
    success: function (data) {

I was thinking if there was an easy way to do this ….I was thinking that one solution would be to write the html in the success part of the ajax call but I would have lots of append statements…any cleaner way would be appreciated

Answer 1

Use cURL with PHP

PS: I recommend not mixing your html and php like you are. It is needlessly hard to debug and maintain.

You can use this code (not tested but should work):
Note: make the URL an absolute URL or it won’t work

$post_data = array(
    'current' => 'null',
    'previous' => 'null',
    'quantity' => '1',
    'multiple' => 'true'
);

// Init curl thing
$ch = curl_init();

// Setup curl options
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => '/shop_systems/index.php?route=module/cart/get_all_products',
    CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE, // Return content as string
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE, // Follow redirects
    CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => TRUE, // Set referer field on redirect
    CURLOPT_VERBOSE => TRUE,
    CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => '/tmp/curl_php_cookies',
    CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => '/tmp/curl_php_cookies',
    CURLOPT_STDERR => fopen('/tmp/curl_php_log', 'w'),
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $post_data
));

// Excecute request
$product = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));

$html = '';

foreach ($products as $product)
{
    $html .= <<< HTML
    <li>
        <h3>
            <span>{$product["price"]}</span> 
            (4)  {$product["name"]}
        </h3>
        <div class="container">
            <table  width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
     <tr>
     <td valign="top" width="42"><span class="qty">{$product["quanitity"]}</span></td>
     <td width="180">
HTML;
}

?>