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Question

I have some tabs whose contents are fully functional parts of my website.
For instance, in my admin area, I have tabs [add/delete album][add photo][delete photo]. I'm technically dividing the admin area via tabs.
I'm using ajax to load the content into these tabs. tab content area is a div.
The view that is inside the tab content area also uses ajax to load stuff.
These are ajax calls that operates inside the tab content area.
Everything works fine as long as the view inside the tab content area stays same or only part of it changes. But when certain interactions inside tab content area return a whole new view, tab content area would not show them.
I know what happens is that this new view that is returned is not passed into the tab content area div.
In firebug, I can see that ajax success function response shows the new view that is returned.
But I do not know how to pass that new view to the tab content area.
I would appreciate it if someone could help me out in explaining how this could be solved or how contents inside tabs are managed in CI.
adminTabsview.php
<ul id="adminTabs">
<li ><?php echo anchor('#album_addDelete', 'Album Add/Delete'); ?></li>
</ul>
<div id="adminTabsContent"></div>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#adminTabs a').on({
click: function (evt){
evt.preventDefault();
var page = this.hash.substr(1);
adminTabsAjaxCall(page);
}
});
});
function adminTabsAjaxCall ($data){
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "index.php/adminsite_controller/"+ $data + "/",
dataType: "html",
data: $data,
statusCode: {removed}
},
success: adminTabContent
});
function adminTabContent (data){
$('#adminTabsContent').html(data);
}
albumsEditDeleteView.php
(this is a view that gets loaded into the tab contentarea div)
<div id="adminTabsContent">
<div id="albumList">
<ul>
<li>
Asdf
<a class="add" href="http://localhost/myPHP/photoalbums/index.php/Albums_Controller/add_album/301/Asdf/1/28/0">[ add ]</a>
<a class="delete" href="http://localhost/myPHP/photoalbums/index.php/Albums_Controller/delete_album/301/Asdf/1/28/0">[ delete ]</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#albumList').on({
click: function (evt){
evt.preventDefault();
var $clickedElement = evt.target.tagName;
if ($clickedElement == 'A' ){
var urlarray = url.split('/');
$chosen.albumid = urlarray[8];
$chosen.albumname = urlarray[9];
$chosen.lft = urlarray[10];
$chosen.rgt = urlarray[11];
$chosen.nodeDepth = urlarray[12];
if ($class == 'add'){
albumajaxcall($chosen);
}
if ($class == 'delete'){
deleteajaxcall($chosen);
}
}
}
});
});
function albumajaxcall($data){
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "index.php/Adminsite_Controller/add_album/",
dataType: "json",
data: $data,
statusCode: {removed}
},
success: adminTabContent
});
}
function adminTabContent(data){
$('#adminTabsContent').html(data);
}
//heres the view file that has to replace the original view inside
//tabcontent area
//addnode_view.php
<?php echo form_open('Albums_Controller/update_albumSet');?>
<input type="text" name="newAlbum" id="newAlbum" value=""/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
<?php echo form_close();?>
<?php
//heres the controller function
function add_album(){
$levelData ['albumid'] = $this->input->post('albumid');
<!-- removed-->
$levelData ['main_content'] = 'addnode_view';
$this->load->view('includes/template', $levelData);
}
//And heres the controller method that loads
//the original page (albumsEditDeleteView.php) - this is the original view
//that gets loaded into the tab- I get stuck when this view
//has to be **totally** replaced through links in the view)
function album_addDelete(){
$allNodes ['myAlbumList'] = $this->Albums_Model->get_albumList();
echo $this->load->view('albumsEditDelete_view', $allNodes);
}
thanx in advance.

Answer 1

basically what you need to do is load whatever new view youll be putting in the tab in the controller function(adminsite_controller/whatever function) that is handling your ajax.
this will basically echo out the view file, which will be viewed as the success variable of your ajax function.
so you have something like this then for the success part of your ajax
success:function(msg){adminTabContent(msg);}
and in your controller in codeigniter you'll load a view the standard way, but since this will be only loading a piece of the page you may need to create a new view file thats just the div that will be there. You will do all your data gathering the same way you would if it wasn't ajax.
$data['some_data'] = $this->some_model->some_function();
$this->load->view('someview', $data);