Loading a facebox modal window after an ajax request - php

Question

this is what i have in the head tags of my html page to load the facebox plugin:
<!-- This is for the facebox plugin to work -->
<link href="<?php echo base_url();?>styles/facebox/src/facebox.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="<?php echo base_url();?>styles/facebox/lib/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
<script src="<?php echo base_url();?>styles/facebox/src/facebox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('a[rel*=facebox]').facebox({
loadingImage : "<?php echo base_url();?>styles/facebox/src/loading.gif",
closeImage : "<?php echo base_url();?>styles/facebox/src/closelabel.png"
})
})
</script>
this is the code for my div
<?php if(isset($$j)) : foreach($$j as $row) : ?>
<div class="single-result" id="single-result">
<div class="name"><?php echo $row->Name; ?></div>
<div class="description"><?php echo $row->Description; ?></div>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php else : ?>
error here
<?php endif; ?>
what i am wanting, is some ajax code that calls a function when the user clicks on the div id="single-result" so that it makes an ajax call to a php controller that gets the data from the database and then loads the view into a facebox modal window.
The part i am unsure about is how to make it load into a facebox modal window, l know how to use ajax calls to make it send data to a file and then load a view into a certain div on the page, l just want it to load it into the modal window instead of a certain div on the page.
Is this possible at all? (also i am using codeigniter for the php framework)
here is my ajax code which would load the ajax request results into the content-right div when the user clicks on div.
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#single-result").click(function() {
var form_data = {
ajax: '1',
itemcode: "<?php echo $row->id; ?>"
};
$.ajax({
url: "<?php echo site_url('ajax/item_info_right'); ?>",
type: 'POST',
data: form_data,
success: function(msg) {
$('#content-right').html(msg);
}
});
return false;
});
</script>
<!-- END -->
how do i modify this code above to make it work with going into a facebox modal window? I know facebox provides this code below, but i have no idea what to do with it?
jQuery.facebox(function() {
jQuery.get('code.js', function(data) {
jQuery.facebox('<textarea>' + data + '</textarea>')
})
})

Answer 1

It's not really clear what you're after...
If what you want is to have the data returned from the ajax POST to be populated into a facebox, simply call facebox on the success callback of the ajax post:
$("#single-result").click(function() {
var form_data = {
ajax: '1',
itemcode: "<?php echo $row->id; ?>"
};
$.ajax({
url: "<?php echo site_url('ajax/item_info_right'); ?>",
type: 'POST',
data: form_data,
success: function(msg) {
jQuery.facebox(msg);
})
});
alternatively, it looks like if you want the facebox loading graphics while the post is processed, you can wrap the ajax POST in facebox function:
$("#single-result").click(function() {
jQuery.facebox(function() {
var form_data = {
ajax: '1',
itemcode: "<?php echo $row->id; ?>"
};
$.ajax({
url: "<?php echo site_url('ajax/item_info_right'); ?>",
type: 'POST',
data: form_data,
success: function(msg) {
jQuery.facebox(msg);
})
});
})
})