CodeIgnitor, Jquery and Ajax help

Question

I am currently building a website in codeigniter that is one page site, basically one the user comes to the page, they created with a main menu from that menu they choose which sections of the sites they would like to see, and clicks on the associated links...clicking on these links should display the content in their own accordian menu.

My question is I assume the easiest way to do this would be load the selected views in using jquery and ajax? If I am on the wrong lines what would be a better solution, also I can't find anything about loading in views using ajax, does any one have any advice?

Thanks Very Much

Answer 1

Yes, you can easily load content with AJAX and jQuery, by binding click-events on your menus and links, like this:

$("a.menuitem").click(function () {
    var link = $(this), url = link.attr("href");
    $("#content_pane").load(url);
    return false; // prevent default link-behavior
});

However, by going down this route you forego some key functionality in the browser. The Back-button won't work. Your users can't bookmark any of the subpages. There are workarounds (like this jquery history plugin), but it'll be a lot of work to replace functionality that comes natively with every users browser.