when i try include a file with ajax i get this error:
Warning: Use of undefined constant WP_CONTENT_DIR - assumed 'WP_CONTENT_DIR'
my dir function:
function mydir(){
return WP_CONTENT_DIR."/plugins";
}
WP_CONTENT_DIR is a constant that WordPress sets up for you during its initialization sequence.
If you are directly accessing a PHP file via AJAX, then likely WordPress is not initialized there, so the constant is undefined, and PHP assumes you must have meant to type a string there instead, leading to the error message.
When you load a file via AJAX, it kicks off a brand new PHP process. If WordPress isn't loaded for that, it can't know things that WordPress knows.
This is why AJAX requests that require access to WordPress resources are designed to be handled in a special way by WordPress. You send requests to a specific URL that WordPress makes available, along with a specified action, and then you define what that action does with a function. Since requests made to this URL include starting up WordPress, you have access to whatever you need from WordPress there.
https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins
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I have Restful controller that renders a view with data from database and I want to load this view with its data in another view via ajax. There is a problem "undefined variable". Is there any solution?
When you pass variables to your view they are only available on the server side while the view renders and then they are discarded. What this means is that the variables are only available to the php of your application and then they are gone by the time the view has been rendered and sent to the visitors web browser.
If you try to use the variables with JavaScript then you are running the JavaScript on the client side (as opposed to the server side). The variables that you pass to your view do not exist on the client side where your JavaScript runs.
From what it sounds like. You are defining a variable in your controller via laravel. Then you are passing the variable from the controller to the view. The view is then rendered as html and sent to the visitor's computer (the client) which the html is then loaded and that is when the JavaScript starts to load.
That's the problem, now possible solutions.
First you could send the variable (assuming it is simple data and not like an object) to the browser through laravel flash variables which are actually stored on one time cookies on the client side. Then you use JavaScript to access the cookie and get the data then storing it to a js variable and using it in your script.
Second you create an Api to respond to your http requests and then send an Ajax request from your JavaScript to the api to get the data. Then you would store it in JavaScript and use it. This allows complex data like objects because you would use the JSON format to send information to respond to the Ajax call. While cookies are restricted to (5kb I think) there is really no theoretical limit to JSON data.
I hope that helps and I hope I'm understanding your problem.
Would need to see your javascript before anything, but usually for me this means a misspelled element id or misspelled a reference file
I need to trigger ajax requests on wordpress frontend in order to get some custom response. lets say to get next/previous post-ID in JSON format.
In production environment the wp-admin directory is inacccessible for http requests by htaccess.
Whats the best practice to solve this problem?
Because AJAX is already used in WordPress’ back end, it has been basically implemented for you. All you need to do is use the functions available. Let’s look at the process in general before diving into the code.
Every AJAX request goes through the admin-ajax.php file in the wp-admin folder. That this file is named admin-ajax might be a bit confusing. I quite agree, but this is just how the development process turned out. So, we should use admin-ajax.php for back-end and user-facing AJAX.
Each request needs to supply at least one piece of data (using the GET or POST method) called action. Based on this action, the code in admin-ajax.php creates two hooks, wp_ajax_my_action and wp_ajax_nopriv_my_action, where my_action is the value of the GET or POST variable action.
Adding a function to the first hook means that that function will fire if a logged-in user initiates the action. Using the second hook, you can cater to logged-out users separately.
Hi Folks,
my first post here, thanks for any help i got already throught reading before.
I am working on a wordpress projekt. And it seems i am missing the overview on my problem.
I use ajax to recieve additional product data. http:url/product/additional_ajax_data...
This works fine, except direct call of the ajax urls. Direct call of a ajax url gives
a 404 not found.
Please dont give instructions like: add 200 ok to header... Cause the project will
consist of some thousand pages and work arounds like this are a no go...
Aditional infos: the urls have no ajax hash tag... And the content will dynamicly loaded depending on last url fragment
I found the solution:
To prevent Wordpress of 404 when calling a ajax url directly, add rewrite endpoints to the system.
You can follow the post from Jon Cave on Wordpress:
http://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2012/06/07/rewrite-endpoints-api/
Works also on custom post_types and custom taxonomys, keep an eye on the type for wich you want to register a custom endpoint rewrite (that may depends on your options from your post type, page type etc...).
If you are sure that url is correct and file is there, check if permissions on file are not too strict. Also check .htaccess to make sure it doesn't black certain file extensions to be loaded directly
I've created a session variable and stored a value "123456" in it.
I need that value on another page that is called using ajax. I cannot access the session variable when making the ajax call. session_start() is in top of both pages. I even tried to write the actual session value to a txt file from the page that the ajax function calls, but the file turned out blank.
What to do?
You cannot access PHP session info from Javascript (I'm assuming that this is what you're trying to do). You can pass it in as a hidden field or in the JS (dynamically added with PHP) to the second page, add it to a regular cookie, or provide it from PHP as a response to an AJAX request, but I think those are your only options.
I would like to include a CodeIgniter comment form in an existing php page. Currently I am including the comment form with
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] = "comment/index2/".$page;
require_once($directoryLevelPrefix . "staff/codeigniter/index.php");
However, when codeigniter loads the view to display the results of the form I lose the content on my original php page which contained the form. I have tried adding a redirect after the form data is added to the database to redirect to my original php page e.g.
redirect($_POST['return'])
But I want to pass some variables, such as 'thank you for your comment', and this causes a headers already sent error.
Alternatives might be to use ajax, but I would like the whole page to refresh when the comment is submitted.
I had a similar need and I just loaded the CodeIgniter form in an iframe. This was to put a contact form on a WordPress page. I went with the iframe because my needs were limited to this one form and I felt it didn't require trying to integrate CodeIgniter and WordPress in any way.
One Pro of this method is that the form can be submitted and load a confirmation page, an error page, or even be a multi-page form and all that navigation takes place inside the iframe so you never leave the page that you are on while using the form. Another Pro is that the form is totally portable.
The Cons of course are anything you might not like about using iframes which could be many things based on your needs and preferences.
That is because CodeIgniter is a framework designed to handle displaying entire web pages. You can't just include it, as it tries to send new headers and everything.
Two solutions:
You may be able to load the codeigniter page as the main page, and just include your original php code like a view file. This depends on how your original php file is set up.
You could possibly use cURL to call the page from your own server, to get the html output as a string, then echo it to your current page. This isn't very efficient though.
As C. Scott Asbach mentioned, you could load the whole page in an iframe. Probably not a good idea though, as far as I'm aware iframes are deprecated and make for messy websites.
Probably best is to just try and avoid using CodeIgniter to display a subform in an existing page :-)