I'm using WP_Ajax_Response(); to respond to some ajax and output it to a div, everything works great. But how exactly do I respond if I want to output some php in to a div?
A wordpress loop for example. I assume can't just do $response = include 'loopHandle.php'; and then $("body.blog #content").html(this.data);
I've seen some methods that make a call directly to your file and then use wp_load(); but I've heard that's something we should stay away from.
I also know that an AJAX response must be in JSON or XML, so how do I get php into my div?
Example
On this click event:
$link_url = esc_url(wp_nonce_url( admin_url('admin-ajax.php?&action=dynamic_date&my_date='.$date), "dynamic_date_nonce")); ?>
<li><a href='<?php echo $link_url; ?>' id='sort-month'>
<?php _e($fmonth,'sort-month'); ?></a></li>
I send over my action, nonce and date key-pairs. I then capture those key-pairs using something like:
var s = {};
s.response = 'ajax-response';
s.type = "GET";
s.url = sortbydate.ajax_url;
s.data = $.extend(s.data, { action: url.action, _ajax_nonce: url._wpnonce, my_date: url.my_date });
s.global = false;
s.timeout = 30000;
s.success = function(r) {
res = wpAjax.parseAjaxResponse(r,this.response);
$.each( res.responses, function() {
switch(this.what) {
case "fulldate":
$("body.blog #content").html(this.data);
The important variable here is the my_date key-pair. The action then kicks off this function in my functions.php.
function dynamic_date() {
check_ajax_referer('dynamic_date_nonce');
$fdate = $_GET['my_date'];
$response = new WP_Ajax_Response();
$response->add(array(
'what' => 'fulldate',
'data' => $fdate)); //get and send the data you want to front end.
$response->send();
} //end action jackson
Which outputs "2012-9" or whatever date I click on. That's great, works fine for test purposes, but now I want to use that date by exploding it into an an array and use those variables in a wordpress loop.
Currently I have the loop in a file called loopHandle.php, but it's not making use of the date variables as if my understanding is correct I can't access them from loopHandle.php? If I could, then I'd just use $fdate = $_GET['my_date']; in loopHandle.php and finish my loop.
I'm still left with the conundrum of loading loopHandle.php into my div though.
The one method I assume is the way to go about it is to form the loop in my functions.php, somehow convert it into JSON or XML and out put it on my page.
