How to communicate with the controller using AJAX in Laravel? - php

Question

I'm using CodeIgniter for over a year now (and got pretty used to it) then found out that it is getting outdated and support has been taken off by ellislab. I want to try using Laravel as an alternative though CodeIgniter still works just fine but for Future purposes, I don't want to get left behind. Now, with Laravel's MVC framework it was easy for me to migrate some of my projects from CI. I'm having a problem with Laravel's routing though as I'm not able to communicate with my controller. Here's a bit of my code:
controller.php:
public function connect() {
$this->load->model('home_model');
if ($DBconnect=$this->home_model->checkConnection()) {
echo json_encode(array(
"success" => true,
"db_connect" => $DBconnect
));
} else {
echo json_encode(array(
"success" => false,
"db_connect" => $DBconnect
));
}
}
view.js:
$("#connection").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
show_loading();
$.get('./home/connect', function(data) {
hide_loading();
Materialize.toast(data.db_connect, 4000, 'rounded green');
}, "json");
});
PS: Am I doing the Laravel way or I'm still very CI minded?

Answer 1

This is my way to connect with the controller
First set up the routes.php :
Route::controller('/','MyController');
On the controller app/controller/MyController.php (You need to create one) :
<?php
class MyController extends BaseController {
public function getJustASampleText(){
echo "Hello World";
}
public function getJustASampleSmile(){
echo ":D";
}
public function getConnect(){
$var_value = "Hello world";
return Response::json(array('var_name' => $var_value));
}
}
Then you can call that function like this
domain.com/just-a-sample-text or
domain.com/just-a-sample-smileor in you case
$.get(`http://127.0.0.1/laravel/public/connect`,function(data){
alert(data.var_name);
})
That how we use Route::controller approach.