[Solar-talk] Nested controllers

[Paul M Jones]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Travis Swicegood wrote:

>> Besides page-types (html/rss/pdf/etc) and site layouts, what would
>> this be used for?  I can think of other ways to respond to page-type
>> requests that are more transparent, and for layouts we can put all
>> the in the layout scripts.
>>
>
> The big thing this is used for is to provide a means in the URL of
> pulling out the display elements and rendering one controller/action
> output - for AJAX calls.
>
> Granted, it could be done with a ?out=ajax at the end, but that's less
> elegant that submitting to bookmark/edit instead of site/bookmark/ 
> edit.

This is a recent development, but you can check $this->_request->isXml 
() to see if the "X-Requested-With" header is "XmlHttpRequest".  Easy  
AJAX recognition; thank Clay for having that idea.  :-)




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