John Mitchell wrote:
How would I do an ajax call within my own custom module?
Thanks,
John
You will probably need 2 menu items: - The first to define the page that will be the ajax client. Ie, the url of the page that this all happens on, a regular drupal page that has called drupal_add_js() to add some JS code that will do a $.ajax({...}); call (or other jquery asynchronous call). This menu item might not be needed though if the JS is added in a block, or inserted via hook_form_alter or hook_nodeapi, etc. - The second menu item will define the ajax server. It should be 'type'=>MENU_CALLBACK and have the appropriate access checks defined as well. The callback function associated with this path should, instead of returning themed output, end with: drupal_json(array(...)); exit(); where the array(...) is an associative array that you want to hand back to the calling page in JSON format.
If you're doing this for D7, look at: http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--examples--ajax_example--ajax_exa...
Seth