I've done exactly what you have with Zend FW and Ajax. i.e. calling
regular controller/action methods, mainly because the functionality
between the Ajax request and a regular request is almost the same.
I don't know if there's a way to tell the controller not to
auto-render a view, so instead I just put an "exit" statement at the
end of the Ajax code. That way no attempt is made to render a view.
This probably isn't best practice, but it works :)
Cheers,
Chris
2008/11/3 Aaron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on an integration of Zend FW 1.6 and ExtJS 2 and having a bit of
> trouble getting my head around just how AJAX should interact with an MVC
> pattern (if it should at all)
>
> Basically, I have an ExtJS login box that I am testing for this purpose. The
> call seems to be correctly sent to the right mehtod, but because by default
> the framework attempts to display a View file of the same name, this is
> failing. All I want is the method to output data in JSON format for ExtJS to
> work with.
>
> Zend Code:
> <?php
>
> class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
> {
>
> public function init()
> {
> $contextSwitch = $this->_helper->getHelper('contextSwitch');
> $contextSwitch->addActionContext('list', 'xml')
> ->initContext();
> }
>
> function indexAction()
> {
> $this->view->title = "My Albums";
> $albums = new Albums();
> $this->view->albums = $albums->fetchAll();
> }
>
> function ajaxLoginAction()
> {
> // Do Login Actions
> echo "{success: true}";
>
> }
>
> }
>
> Error from Firebug:
>
> <br />
>
> <b>Fatal error</b>: Uncaught exception 'Zend_View_Exception' with message
> 'script 'index/ajax-login
>
> .phtml' not found in path (..\application\views\scripts\)' in
> C:\wamp\www\zend\library\Zend\View\Abstract
>
> .php:875
>
> Am I even going about this right? Or is it best to separate these actions
> from the MVC framework and just use my own scripts in a separate directory?
> There's next to no info on AJAX stuff online, and almost zero on ExtJS
> (which shouldn't really matter anyway).
>
> Cheers
>
> Aaron
>
> >
>
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