I am successfully inserting data into my database in codeigniter via a an ajax post from javascript:
//JAVASCRIPT:
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: submissionURL,
data: submissionString,
failure: function(errMsg) {
console.error("error:",errMsg);
},
success: function(data){
$('body').append(data); //MH - want to avoid this
}
});
//PHP:
public function respond(){
$this->load->model('scenarios_model');
$responseID = $this->scenarios_model->insert_response();
//redirect('/pages/view/name/$responseID') //MH - not working, so I have to do this
$redirectURL = base_url() . 'pages/view/name/' . $responseID;
echo "<script>window.location = '$redirectURL'</script>";
}
But the problem is that I can't get codeigniter's redirect function to work, nor can I get PHP's header location method to work, as mentioned here:
Redirect to specified URL on PHP script completion?
either - I'm guessing this is because the headers are already sent? So as you can see, in order to get this to work, I have to echo out a script tag and dynamically insert it into the DOM, which seems janky. How do I do this properly?
Maybe you can 'return' the url in respond function and use it in js
PHP :
public function respond(){
// code
$redirectURL = base_url() . 'pages/view/name/' . $responseID;
return json_encode(['url' => $redirectURL]);
}
JS :
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: submissionURL,
data: submissionString,
dataType: 'JSON',
failure: function(errMsg) {
console.error("error:",errMsg);
},
success: function(data){
window.location = data.url
}
});
you have to concatenate the variable. That's all.
redirect('controller_name/function_name/parameter/'.$redirectURL);