Okay... it appears I found my own answer. Not that anyone will be
doing what I am doing but for all who do not know.... you can call a
controller by AJAX request without needing a view. Set the layout for
that controler = 'ajax'. Now I can echo my litter heart away.....
Hope my frustration helps someone else.
Happy baking.
Daniel
On Sep 19, 11:12 pm, DGPhoebus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay here is the situation, I am working on a "Ticketing" website that
> I have already created in the "old" method of making websites (not
> CakePHP). I am redoing it now using CakePHP and I love it. Here is
> my problem. On the old site, I built out the layout of the theatre
> using a table with each seat being represented by a td cell. Each td
> cell had an onclick event that called my own code that either
> "reserved" or "released" the selected seat by an AJAX call. My AJAX
> call would return a value, '1','2', or '0' denoting "success",
> "failure", or "arleady taken" to my javascript function. I would then
> move on based on that response:
>
> var response = oXmlHttp.responseText;
> switch (response.charAt(0)) {
> case '0':
> // Alert that seat was already taken
> break;
> case '1':
> // Success
> break;
> case '2':
> // Alert Error
> break;
>
> }
>
> I have re-written this code using Prototype and can make the call to
> Controller/reserve . BUT.... 1. I have to create a useless "view" for
> this controller action and 2. I can't return a value of either 1,2, or
> 0. If I echo any of those characters the response text contains the
> entire "view" listing with "headers already sent" error. If I try to
> return any of those values it returns the entire view.
>
> Is there a way to call a controller action without needing a view? Is
> there a way to return a value from the controller action like I need
> 1,2, or 0?
>
> There are many actions that need to happen based on which return value
> I get from my AJAX call so it has to happen this way. The AJAX helper
> only appears to follow the form of SAVE then UPDATE and that is not
> enough.
>
> There has to be a way to do this without doing it the old way of
> making a call to a single script sitting in the document root. I am
> still very new to Cake so if this could be solved by something like a
> Component or something I would greatly appreciate some direction.
> Redoing this site with Cake has been fantastic and I have rolled right
> along up to this point, but I have stalled out.
>
> Please help!
>
> Daniel
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