That's the clean way to do it, and I would if I were in control of the handshaking, but because Ctools is doing the handling of the link click and the construction of the AJAX handshaking, I can't just package it up and send it...I need to find the right 'box and forms' to get it to accept, carry and deliver my package for me. On 03/29/2011 07:49 PM, Anthony Malkoun wrote:
I don't use CTools, but how I normally do this is define in the module a hook_menu item that is purely callback (i.e. 'type' => MENU_CALLBACK) and use that. Tabular data I push using a jQuery $.ajax call and just serialize() the whole data HTML element. To pass something back in the callback function (in module) just encode it using json_encode and in jQuery $.ajax call have a success handler that does something with it.
Malks.