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best practice to use action url while calling ajax in cakePHP

Answer 1

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What to do is in your master template for your cake app create a global javascript variable that can be used throughout your application. Make sure it exists befor you do any JS includes too.

<head>
    ...
    <script type="text/javascript">var myBaseUrl = '<?php echo $html->url; ?>';</script>
    ...
    <script type="text/javascript" src="mycustomJSfile.js">
    ...
</head>

Now you can do things like this from any view file you have in your MVC framework app.

$.post({url: myBaseUrl + 'controller/action'});

Paul Dragoonis 2010-07-28 12:19:02

I do this for every web application i write using any framework. It's even more handy if you're using Smarty and need the baseUrl in javascript. You'd have to do {/literal}{$baseUrl}{/literal} which is a royal PITA. The above solution solves this nicely.

Paul Dragoonis 2010-07-29 14:59:32

Answer 2

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I do it like this. It works across deployments using inbuilt CakePhp functionality:

<?php $Url = Router::url(array('controller'=>'users','action'=>'ajaxUpdateAccess'),true); ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function _updateAccess(thisCheck)
    {
        var xmlHttp = createXmlHttpRequestObject();
        var actionURL = '<?php echo $Url ?>';
        ...

Leo 2010-07-29 08:24:17

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