Thanks for the answer Arthus. I will have learn more about what you
just said.
It would be great to have sections on ajax in the online docs.
On Nov 10, 8:32 pm, Arthus Erea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, it is quite easy to do AJAX with Habari.
>
> First, write your JavaScript and include it using a hook in the theme.
> For examples of this, just check out the -extras repository.
>
> Have the AJAX request sent to example.com/habari/ajax/foobar. (You can
> generate this URL with URL::get('ajax', array('context' => 'foobar');)
>
> Then, in your function, just implement the ajax_foobar action. (Make a
> method named action_ajax_foobar).
>
> Whatever you do in that function (and only what you do in that
> function) will be called when the request is sent. No hacking needed,
> everything can be contained in your plugin file.
>
> On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:38 AM, kanian wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I wrote a mail "plugin" based on swiftmailer and using ajax as a mean
> > for sending user interactions back to the server. I followed the
> > discussion about the mail functionality to be added to habari and
> > habari's design philosophy. So here I am not trying to add a mail
> > functionality to Habari, nor presenting a release version of my plugin
> > per se, but rather I am experimenting with ajax and Habari.
> > That being, being new to Habari I had to ack the index.php code to be
> > able to make my asychronous calls to Habari, since I don't know yet
> > the "right" way to do ajax with Habari.
> > The technique I used allows me to load only the plugin concerned with
> > the request and return results from that plugin directly in the
> > response.
>
> > Here's how I proceded:
> > In entry.single.php I added at the relevant place this piece of code:
> > <?php if ( Plugins::is_loaded( 'Swiftmailer' ) ): ?>
> > <span class="post-mail-friend">
> > <?php $theme->show_mailer_prompt();?>
> > </span>
> > <?php endif; ?>
>
> > This is inserted by the theming engine as soon as a post is rendered
> > to the screen.
> > The theme_show_mailer_prompt( ) method in my plugin just returns a
> > template that I named 'swiftmailer', whose most relevant part to this
> > discussion is :
>
> > email post to a friend?
> > <script language="javascript">
> > function show_form_callback(responseText,statusCode,xhr)
> > {
> > //some code here
>
> > $('#send_email').livequery(
> > 'click',
> > function(){$("<div>").load("/habari/",
> > {plugin:'swiftmailer',action:"mail"},send_email_callback)}
> > );
> > }
>
> > function show_form()
> > {
> > $("<div>").load("/habari/",
> > {plugin:'swiftmailer',action:"show_mail_form"},show_form_callback);
> > }
>
> > //some code here
>
> > </script>
>
> > So I send a 'plugin' token with the request specifying which plugin
> > should receive this request, and action to perform by the plugin.
> > In index.php I act based on the value of that token. The relevant code
> > in index.php is :
>
> > header( 'Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8' );
>
> > //used for ajax calls to specific plugins
> > if(array_key_exists('plugin',$_POST))
> > {
>
> > $plugins = Plugins::list_active();
> > foreach($plugins as $plugin)
> > {
> > $plugin_base = basename($plugin);
> > if($_POST['plugin'].'.plugin.php'==$plugin_base)
> > {
> > include_once($plugin);
> > Plugins::load($plugin);
> > Plugins::act('plugins_loaded');
> > // Start the session.
> > Session::init();
> > Plugins::act('init');
> > Plugins::act($_POST['action']);
> > exit();
> > }
> > }
>
> > echo($user_plugins.$_POST['plugin'].$ds.
> > $_POST['plugin'].'.plugin.php');
> > exit();
>
> > }
>
> > Then in my plugin (that I called unsurprisingly
> > swiftmailer.plugin.php) , I have methods like this one to perform the
> > action I want:
>
> > public function action_show_mail_form( )
> > {
> > $this->theme_load();
> > echo $this->theme->fetch('swiftmailer_form' );
> > }
>
> > with the theme_load function given here for clarity:
> > function theme_load()
> > {
> > $themes = new Themes();
> > $this->theme = $themes->create();
> > }
>
> > Now what I would like to how many Habari design principles I have
> > violated here :))
> > Moer seriously how to do this properly with Habari?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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