ajax page template

Question

I am creating a wp theme that gets all its data via ajax (using ajax-admin.php). Now, I've set a div that would have the html of the page there (in the index.php file). My index.php is a simple one, like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="ajaxdata"></div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I also setup ajax (as I said via ajax-admin.php), and it works with simple content (for example echoing there some jquery generated text or retrieving a post/page.

I have created 4 types of pages as page templates. article_1, article_2, article_3, article_4. What I want is the function that returns the page template html into a variable applied with the page data from an id. Is there a ready function on the codex or a filter/action to do that?

Answer 1

As it seems, it's an easier way, using get_template_part and some php magic. What you do is get the page name from post_metadata filter the filename without the extension and add it to get_template_part. Of course all your data must conform a predefined variable (or just pass the id to the template) because you have to use a global $post or a global $ID on the page template to retrieve that variable.