How to create a view for an AJAX call?

[fmmarzoa]

Hi,

I need to create a "raw" view for an AJAX call. I rather prefer not to create new controller nor model neither, since I have yet them and can do what the view needs, I just need to do its output in a "raw" format -without joomla template surrounding- so its output may be used to fill an input field on a JavaScript call.

I have many doubts on this issue.

For example, I have created a new view with this structure into my components administrator part:

/views/commentlist
/views/commentlist/tmpl
/views/commentlist/tmpl/list.php
/views/commentlist/view.raw.php

The view also needs to receive an extra parameter when called, so I will pass it on get as article_id.

First question is how to call now that view, i.e., what URI should I use to link it and what I need to implement on my default controller so it uses that view instead of other.

I think the URL may be something like:

/index.php?option=com_lxncom&task=commentlist.list&article_id=3214

But I am not sure about if this is the correct one, and also what controller will call this and what method I need on the controller to handle that request.

TIA,

[fmmarzoa]

I am getting crazy with this.

It seems like a format=raw parameter is needed for formatting the raw output.

I rather like to use a controller that is called 'comments'. But if I use this link:

/index.php?option=com_lxncom&task=comments.list&format=raw

Then it looks for a controller named comments.raw.php instead of comments.php.

So I tried this other kind of link:

/index.php?option=com_lxncom&controller=comments&task=list&format=raw

And then controller parameter seems to be ignored, and it tries to use the default component controller instead.

So, how can I build a link to use the "comments" controller?

Regards,

[guyjeffries99]

Hi

I think what you need for "format=raw" is "tmpl=raw" in the url, for instance:

/index.php?option=com_lxncom&controller=comments&task=list&tmpl=raw

[Pocketss]

I should mention I have not tried this, but looking through the code in JController.

try "type=raw" see if that works. You also want to add "tmpl=component" so you only get the component's output instead of modules and such.

[NachoBrito]

Hi,

you don't need to call the controller if you only need to render a view. You could try this:

index.php?option=com_lxncom&view=commentlist&format=raw

and then define your view like this:

/views/commentlist
/views/commentlist/tmpl
/views/commentlist/tmpl/default_raw.php
/views/commentlist/view.raw.php

(I'm writing on the go, beware of typos...)

HTH.