jQuery and codeigniter help

Question

Hello, I am trying to get some data from a database on the fly and place it into a div, currently my javascript file looks like this,

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    //accordians for when the AJAX loads the content

    // hides the main_menu as soon as the DOM is ready
    // (a little sooner than page load)
    $('#main_menu').hide();
        // shows the slickbox on clicking the noted link  
        $('h3#show-menu a').click(function() {
                $('#main_menu').toggle('slow');
                    return false;
        });
//try and hide the left content when it is null
    $("#left-content:empty").hide();
    //style up the scroll bar
        $('#left-content').jScrollPane();

        //do some AJAX to call the method instead of the browser
        $("a.navlink").click(function (ev) {
            $(this).toggleClass("active");
            ev.preventDefault();
            var id = $(this).attr("id")
            if ($(this).hasClass("active")) {
               $("."+id).remove();
            } else {
            //$(this).toggleClass("active");
                  var url = $(this).attr("href");
                alert(url);
                    $.ajax ({
                        url:  url,
                        type: "POST",
                        success : function (html) {
                            $('#accordion').accordion('destroy');
                            $("#accordion").append(html).accordion({active:false, header:'h2', collapsible:true});
                        }
                    });
            }
        });
        /*
                * THIS IS CODE IN QUESTION
                */
        $("a.contentlink").mouseover(function(){
            var url = $(this).attr("href");
            $.ajax ({
                url: url,
                type: "POST",
                success : function (html) {
                    $('#abstract').append(html)
                }
            });
        });
  });
</script>

The code in question is last function that uses a.contentlink as the selector, what I am wanting is for the user to enter the the element with their mouse and for that to trigger the ajax and the results to be appended to the `#abstract' container, the method gets called is currently,

public function get_content($content_id) {
        $data['hello'] = "hello";
        $this->load->view('template/abstract', $data);
    }

At the moment I am just setting a simple variable when the function is called, but I am getting nothing back, can any body help?

Answer 1

if you use the following code

$this->load->view('template/abstract', $data, TRUE);

the output is returned which is what you need for AJAX requests.

Source: Returning views as data, http://www.codeignitor.com/user_guide/general/views.html